Nutrition during Pregnancy: Findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Fetal Growth Studies-Singleton Cohort.
Stefanie N HinkleCuilin ZhangKatherine L GrantzAnthony SciscioneDeborah A WingWilliam A GrobmanRoger B NewmanMary E D'AltonDaniel SkupskiMichael P NageotteAngela C RanziniJohn OwenEdward K CheinSabrina CraigoSamrawit F YisahakAiyi LiuPaul S AlbertGermaine M Buck LouisJagteshwar GrewalPublished in: Current developments in nutrition (2020)
Most pregnant women in this cohort reported dietary intakes that, on average, did not meet US Dietary Guidelines for nonpregnant individuals. Also, diet differed across race/ethnic groups and by prepregnancy BMI, with the lowest overall dietary quality in all trimesters among non-Hispanic Black women and women with obesity. No meaningful changes in dietary intake were observed between the second and third trimesters.