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Fiona Ford

Fiona Ford

Nutritionist, specializing in pregnancy

I am a dietician based at the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition (CPN), University of Sheffield. The CPN is devoted to nutritional physiology and public health nutrition in relation to pregnancy and lactation. The national Eating for Pregnancy Helpline and website based at the CPN have achieved considerable success in disseminating education about nutrition before, during and after pregnancy to the public, healthcare practitioners and the media.I have been working in this area for 15 years and really enjoy advising pregnant or planning-to-be women on how to ensure their diet is as good as possible.


There is so much information around today - on TV, the internet, newspapers, magazines - that it can be difficult to make an informed choice about whether the latest nutrition headlines are fact or fiction!And there are huge pressures on women today to have all the latest information and advice.


I hope I will help you enjoy your food rather than be worried about everything you eat, as pregnancy nutrition is not rocket science, it is simply about eating a varied, healthy diet, avoiding only a very few foods and coping with food-related pregnancy problems such as morning sickness.I have two children who are quite grown up in some ways, both having now finished university but still enjoy a good family feast back at home.


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How bizzar (cravings i mean)

Asked by LoveMyMonkey.
Seriously i aint ever been a big believer in the whole craving when preggers thing. Im on baby number three and can honestly say i had none - untill last night i think!!!! Im going crazy! Me and my bloke were watching grand designs last night, there was a house getting knocked down in the rain, my mouth was watering, how nice did the rubble look, i could almost smell it! Couldnt sleep last night for thinking of stone and old wet concrete, racking my brain as to where i was gonna get some. Taking all my strength not to go outside and find some old bricks and suck the concrete! Seriously am i weird!! Anyone else fancy the strangest things in there mouths???
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gone off my food at 7 weeks . normal ?

Asked by lisalisa21.
im almost 7 weeks pregnant and the past few days i been off some of my fav food . . is that normal ??
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ive just weighed myself! :( IM FAT!

Asked by LeahKaur.
Ive just weighed myself,im 27weeks pregnant and ive put on 2stone and 9lb,obvioulsy im still carrying my baby,but im sure he only weighs a couple of pound! i feel gutted,so gutted that i sat and ate a bowl of icecream.....grrrrrrr
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CARVING SWEETS!!!

Asked by sameera1.
Hi all, I am almost ten weeks pregnant and I am carving sweets than other things, and as I read in some websites that if we carve sweets we are expecting a baby girl is it right? has anyone else experienced it? just wanted to know what you guys thing about it?
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big babies

Asked by dueinmay.
im getting realy worried about the size my 4th is going to be, im 22wks on tuesday and im huge you would think i was due in a few weeks. iv got 3 girls already and they were big my 1st was 9lb 4oz , my 2nd and 3rd were 9lb i was big with them but im a lot bigger 4th time round. is anyone else worried or had big babies?
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Coming up with excuses for not drinking over the festive period...

Asked by emlouise.
Hi everyone, I will be around 8 weeks pg when the first of the Christmas parties happen this year and I'm a terrible liar!! I don't really want to have to tell people we're expecting any earlier than 12 weeks because I had a mc back in May, so my question is - does anyone know good excuses I can use?? Thanks!
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