A Healthy Start: Nutritional issues during pregnancy and breastfeeding

 Your 25 year old patient has recently discovered she is pregnant. You don’t see her often, but do recall her mother bringing her in to see you a number of years ago with concerns about her vegetarian diet.  She has many questions today about how the basics of a healthy diet in pregnancy, especially after “googling it” and getting conflicting information. “How do I eat “for two”?”  How do you counsel her? What tools might be helpful?