Pregnant women can drink ice stuff in small amounts occasionally, but not frequently or in large quantities.
After a woman is pregnant, due to increased hormone levels, there will be varying degrees of nausea, vomiting or loss of appetite, early pregnancy reaction, occasional small amounts of icy things can make pregnant women to relieve their cravings, relieve the reaction of pregnancy vomiting.
However, during pregnancy to avoid often or once a large number of drink ice things. Because pregnant women gastrointestinal function is relatively weak, if often or once drink a lot of ice things easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other uncomfortable symptoms, once there is a serious diarrhea will also stimulate the uterus to contract, increasing the incidence of miscarriage during pregnancy.
Furthermore, pregnant women often drink cold things will also stimulate the stomach, causing loss of appetite, stomach bloating or stomach pain and other discomforts, gastric discomfort will affect the normal eating pregnant women, can not eat normally may lead to insufficient supply of nutrients, which in the long run will result in the development of the fetus is delayed or stunted, endangering the normal development of the fetus.
It is generally recommended that pregnant women try not to drink ice things, if you really want to drink can occasionally drink a mouthful or two, should not be too much, to ensure balanced nutrition during pregnancy, dietary diversity.