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Acceptance of Pregnancy
Accepting the pregnancy is one of the first changes a women
must make for a successful transition in life style. This
acceptance refers to a woman’s adoptive responses to all of the
changes inherent in prenatal growth and development.
CULTURAL ASPECT
Diet
Cultures encourages the pregnant women to maintain a diet
to generally considered a normal one for that is generally
considered a normal one for that culture. Food taboos are
common, usually reflecting a cultural belief that certain foods are
unclean or fears that ingesting certain food will produce
undesirable physical characteristic in the new born. For example
pregnant Korean women avoid eating chicken crab, eggs drank,
rabbit and blemished fruits as those may harm baby’s
appearance some cultures that subscribe to hot and cold theory
of illness such as the Hindus, view pregnancy as a hot state.
So cold goods such as milk and milk products sour foods
and vegetables are encouraged. Hot foods such as chillies, ginger
and animal products are believed to cause miscarriage and fetal
abnormalities.