● This is the time when hyperemesis is gone and you have a good appetite. Sometimes, you have to eat continuously as you are still hungry although you have eaten enough. However, you have to be careful about weight control steadily since being fat leads to difficulties in delivery and there is a danger of gestosis toward the end of pregnancy. Care should be taken not to have your weight increased by more than 2 kg per month. Avoid sweet and greasy foods but take mainly low-calorie and high-protein foods.

● Take a blood-forming nourishing agent if you have anemia. : Various nutrients should be supplied sufficiently so that the fetus may grow smoothly since it grows rapidly from the middle stage of pregnancy. Particularly, the fetus requires a large amount of iron and absorbs necessary iron from the mother although the mother does not absorb iron. Therefore, you should take the foods having sufficient iron such as the liver, egg yolk, milk, green and yellow vegetables carefully. And you should take the iron preparation as instructed by the doctor if the symptoms for anemia are shown.

● The rate of absorption of calcium is increased if only it is taken along with protein foods. : Calcium has a very low rate of absorption of about 20%, which may be increased if it is taken along with the foods having sufficient animal proteins such as beef, pork, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful to have balanced meals concentrating on animal proteins at ordinary times. And processed or instant foods should be avoided as much as possible since the rate of absorption of calcium is lowered if Vitamin D is not taken sufficiently. A menu with five balanced nutrients should be prepared.