Malnutrition in early pregnancy cause fetal brain malformations

Baby brain development is not a birth setting, 0 to 3 years old baby brain development is the golden period. This process of brain development for the baby and the need to add nutrients to remind parents of infants and young children grasp the golden period of brain development, raising a smart and lovely baby.

Starting from the fetal brain development

The development of the nervous system beginning from the embryo, the earliest in 18 days, you can see the most primitive embryonic neural tissue ─ ─ neural plate appears. After a series of molding process, about a month or so you can see the prototype of the brain. So the first trimester (first 3 months) to the central nervous system forming based.

Then the second pregnancy (the first 4 to 6 months) for neural migration ─ ─ mother cell migration to the center of the brain cortex. The third trimester (after the first 7 months) is mainly neuroblastoma cells to differentiate into a variety of different functions of neurons.

The overall structure of the brain be completed in about 3 years old. Interestingly, newborn nerve cells in the brain micro-links between each other (called synapses) like weeds, the number of many and as varied, far more than adult neural network, but this lack of planning as the city streets in general, but no more than the number of efficiency at all.

Only through continuous learning process, cutting the chaotic neural network, can be frequently used neural pathways expand into the highway, do not use eradication, non-functional trail. It can be seen, although the brain after birth, appearance or less stereotyped, but the brain's neural network is still in constant construction, the state amended from time to time.

Nutritional supplement during pregnancy to be appropriate

Since forming in the first trimester of pregnancy brain started, so nutritional status of mothers from early pregnancy may affect the baby in the future shape and functions of the brain. If the malnutrition of early pregnancy, may cause fetal brain malformations. For example, such as vitamin A deficiency may cause brain and eye abnormalities too small, folic acid deficiency may cause neural tube defects.

Maternal nutrition on fetal brain now so important, then the large number of additional vitamin supplements are beneficial and harmless it? In fact too far. Too much vitamin A has been shown to cause central nervous system abnormalities. Therefore, pregnant women do have to pay attention to nutrition, but nutritional supplements should be appropriate and not excessive.