The risk of passing an abnormality on to your baby raises with your age. If you are over 35 and want to have a baby, follow these steps:
See a doctor three months before you try to have a baby. Go over your health problems, health past, drugs, and immunizations.
Take one prenatal vitamin a day for the three months before you become pregnant. It should have 400 micrograms of folic acid. Take it through the first month you are pregnant.
Keep all visits with your doctor.
Eat healthy foods. Eat foods that have folic acid like breakfast cereals, grain products, leafy greens, oranges and orange juice, and peanuts.
Start at a healthy weight.
Do not smoke or drink alcohol.
Don't use any drug unless given the okay by a doctor who knows you are pregnant.
REFERENCES:
Chromosome abnormalities. National Human Genome Research Institute website. Available at: ...(Click grey area to select URL) Updated January 6, 2016. Accessed July 30, 2018.
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