If you are going all out on the healthy eating you would have at least 5 portions of fruit and veg per day.

To get max benefits they would include as many different colours as possible as each colour is related to different benefits, and in pregnancy it is especially important to get the orange and green ones, apparently. So carrots, peaches, apricots and brocolli, cabbage, sprouts etc.

I just got back from 5 days in Thailand and feel bad as I really ate badly. I ate mostly prawns and curries, not a lot of vegetables. I was a bit nervous of the salads as you don't know how well they wash the salads and since they weren't cooked I avoided them.
I have only been given one multi pre natal vitamin by my doctor, is this ok or should I be taking more? I am 15 weeks and have also gone off vegetables and fruit and my appetite has shrunk, I only feel like bread and pastries.
I do exercise 3 times a week

so helpful, thank you!

I made sure weekly I ate avocados, eggs, brazil nuts and almonds, good quality muesli or porridge with added raisons, sunflower and pumpkin seeds. trout, salmon and oily fish twice a week, loads of water, steamed veg. all stuff we should try to eat pregnant or not. good quality high cocoa chocolate. exercise I walk and that's all, get a good ipod or radio from your phone, listen to talk radio or download podcasts or books to listen to to make walking less boring. pregnancy yoga and swimming.

Dinny it should be OK as long as you've got a pretty solid pelvis - I've had a personal trainer show me how people use x-trainer's wrongly because they rock their pelvis and their lower backs wriggle all over the place. But I guess take every advice with a grain of salt - do what feels right for your body...

You don't have to use the arm things, I didn't. I just used it for toning my legs and the cardiovascular workout. The gym instructor recommened it that way for me.

I can see why, actually, Terf

annoying as I have a X-trainer!

The twisting action is apparently not good for your ligaments - I've had a bad back which is why I've been told this.

Yes, why not? I can understand your physio telling you not to if you had a bad back, but if you don't then why not? It's low impact.

Terf - why not X-trainer?