Question

Why is it particularly important for a pregnant woman to obtain all of the essential nutrients (or have adequate stores of them) during the critical period of embryonic/fetal development?

Answer 1

It is particularly very important for a pregnant woman to obtain all the essential nutrients during critical period of embryonic/foetal development.

This is because all the essential nutrients play an crucial and significant role in the healthy development of the foetus. The foetus receives all these nutrients from the mother. If the mother doesn’t have enough nutrients in the body, there will be a shortage in the nutrients for the foetus. As they are essential for the development, their shortage causes errors in the development. This could result in the maldevelopment or reduces development of the foetus. These errors in development can have complications during pregnancy, result in  life long morbidity or sometimes even result in death of foetus.

The common developmental abnormalities are neural tube defects, under developed respiratory systems etc.

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