Are Dates Safe For Pregnant Women?

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Taking dates types is useful and safe and is not contraindicated in during pregnancy, but pregnant women should be careful about their consumption. In other word, they only can eat daily one or two date fruits from their first month to ninth months. In ninth months, they can eat daily three to six fruit dates.

Updated at: Sep 03,2021

Dates Consumption in Pregnancy

In all dates, there are 13 vital substances and 5 types of vitamins, fatty acids and sugars that the total of them are caused to introduce dates as a rich food source for all the day of our life even in period of pregnancy, since pregnant women during pregnancy need nutritious materials, the date consumption is one of the best material. Eating dates during pregnancy can meet and satisfy the pregnant women's needs of a sweet food. The dates sugars are broken down without causing a significant increase in blood sugar levels in the body and provide the energy.

To now, we know the dates consumption are not contraindicated in during pregnancy but pregnant women have to be careful their consumption because all of dates types especially dried dates are the rich source of calories. Increasing calories cause of weight gain during pregnancy, which has many effects on the health of mother and fetus especially in the ninth month. so consume lower than a handful of dates per day.

Regularly consumption of date fruits has below features (properties):

• Women who ate dates daily during the pregnancy especially their ninth months were less likely than non-date eaters to need medication to start labor or to help it keep progressing (process of natural childbirth).
• Women who consumed date fruit had significantly higher mean cervical dilatation upon admission compared with the non-date fruit consumers.
• Use of Pitocin (synthetic Oxytocin) was significantly lower in women who consumed dates (28%), compared with the non-date fruit mothers (47%)
• Provide natural fibers and minerals that pregnancy women need