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Tips from Twin Tiers Moms for planning your pregnancy:

• Plan for your pregnancy: Whether this will be your first child or an addition to your current family, you need to start planning and think about how it would affect your existing lifestyle.
• A couple has to decide how many children they want to have and the spacing between them. Anywhere between two to four years seems to be an ideal thing.
• Quit smoking: Most women want to quit or want to cut down. There are medications women can take to safely cut down on smoking.
• Lose weight: If someone is overweight or is diabetic, they should adhere to a healthy diet and exercise plan.
• Take a folic acid supplement: A woman should take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. It can be contained in a multivitamin or its own pill. However, the supplement should not replace a well- balanced diet
• Seek pre-screenings: If you or your spouse have a history of genetic defects in your families, it’s best to get any relevant tests to see what the risk would be for the baby to inherit a particular trait.

Source:
Planning to get pregnant? Read this first (Star-Gazette)