Can Pregnant Women Eat Dates? Health Benefits and Risks

During pregnancy, you need more energy than usual. Eating a handful of dates daily can fulfill the required amount of sugar in the body without increasing calories. Dates can also fulfill the iron deficiency in your body, which reduces the risk of anemia. Iron maintains the amount of hemoglobin in the body and also increases the immunity of the mother and the child.

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Dates are rich in fiber which keeps your digestive system healthy, so that there is no problem of constipation. Dates keep the stomach feeling full for a long time, it also reduces cholesterol levels and also helps in maintaining a balanced weight during pregnancy. Dates are also a good source of folate (folic acid). Folate protects the baby from birth defects related to the brain and spinal cord during pregnancy.

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Magnesium is an essential mineral that helps in the development of the baby's bones and teeth in the womb. It also controls your blood sugar and blood pressure level. Dates prevent magnesium deficiency in the body. Let us tell you that due to its deficiency, many disorders can occur in the liver and kidney of the baby.

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Many studies have been done to reduce the chances of problems in delivery due to dates. Eating dates in the last few weeks of pregnancy does not cause any problem in opening the cervix at the time of delivery. Many times, even when the delivery date comes, labor pain does not start in women. In such a situation, some medicines or injections are given to the mother to bring about delivery. If a pregnant woman starts eating dates a few weeks before delivery, this condition or problem can be avoided. Women who eat dates do not have to endure labor pain for a long time.

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According to a study, 69 women who ate 6 dates daily for 4 weeks before delivery were found to have 20 percent more chances of natural delivery than pregnant women who did not eat dates.

In another study, 154 pregnant women who ate dates during pregnancy had much less problems at the time of delivery (during delivery) than those women who did not eat dates during pregnancy. In a third study, 91 pregnant women started eating 70-76 grams of dates daily from the 37th week of pregnancy, these women were able to remain active for about 4 hours during delivery compared to women who did not eat dates.

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