Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: 1.1 Support healthy lifestyles for children through the provision of food and nutrition
Learning outcome: 2. Understand how food choices impact on health and development during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Assessment criteria: 2.1 Explain the impact on health and development of food choices during: pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, breastfeeding.
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- Pre-pregnancy
- Establishes good eating habits for the future
- Builds up reserves of nutrients
- Increases likelihood of conception
- Pregnancy
- Some foods should be avoided to prevent illness (e.g. raw eggs and meat, soft cheeses, unpasteurised dairy products, shark, swordfish, liver, peanuts etc.)
- Aids development in the womb
- Breastfeeding
- A healthy balanced diet ensures baby gets all the nutrients they need
- Unless advised by GP, there are no special dietary requirements whilst breastfeeding
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