Vitamin D Function for Pregnant Woman

It`s very important to maintain the fetus health, since in the woman`s uterus until the childbirth process. The woman have to complete the need of macro and micro nutrition for the fetus. One of the macro nutrition which is very important to be completed is the vitamin D. It can be supported by a research taken from the Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism which found that if the vitamin D can`t be completed, the baby will have a lower weight.

The vitamin D acquirement can be done step by step. It can be done in the beginning of pregnancy (in the first trimester). It will influence the fetus growth in the next trimester. If the woman has a lower vitamin D acquirement in the first trimester, her uterus will have a high risk twice greater to have some growth disruption.

In this research enrolled 2.146 pregnant woman which is registered in the Perinatal Collaborative Project in 12 Unites State Medical Center in 1959-1965. Their blood sample is preserved and tested how much the vitamin D found in the blood. The result shows that the woman has a lower vitamin D value during the 26 weeks of pregnancy, they born a baby which has an average weight of 46 gram lighter than the normal new born baby.

It is very dangerous because a new born baby who has a lower weight will have a high risk of death in the first month. It also have a high risk to be suffer toward some chronic diseases such as the heart attack, hypertension, and diabetes in type-2.

The biggest research that has been done to identify the correlation between vitamin D in the pregnant woman`s body and the fetus weight. It proved clinically that the woman have to complete an adequate vitamin D supply to improve the fetus weight.

But those research is needed to be reviewed again because there are some possibility for the change of the data because the woman may have a change of her life style. When the woman reduce the activity of smoking it will increase the vitamin D supply from the food which is more better with a vitamin D taken from the direct sun light. Therefore it will have some influences toward the fetus weight which is born. And the interesting thing about the research in 1959-1965 showed that pregnant women who do not consume enough vitamin D are at risk of having a child obesity.

Summary:

• Vitamin D for the pregnant woman will influence the fetus health,
• The vitamin D acquirement can be done by the pregnant woman start from the beginning of her pregnancy,
• Consuming vitamin D will influence the fetus weight.