The first assignment was developing a one-day meal plan for a pregnant woman who was 20 weeks gestation, 28-year olds, which included 3 meals and 3 snacks.  Given her pre pregnancy weight, her height, and physical activity students had to estimate her energy intake (EER) for the second trimester, including the macronutrients, iron, calcium, and vitamin D recommendations.  The USDA SuperTracker was used to complete this task.  At 25 weeks gestation this woman developed gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).  Using the meal plan created for the first part of the homework, we had to adjust it to meet the her new needs.  A copy of the meal plans for part one and two of this assignment can be found above.  At the bottom of the second part of this assignment we were asked to provide two brief explanations as to why the NIH did not adopt the One-Step approach recommended by the IADPSG regarding GDM after reviewing the NIH Consensus Development Conference Statements.

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Another assignment was to find a recent research article on a topic about breastfeeding that interested us after reviewing a literature review about insulin's role in poor and delayed lactation.  I chose to research the risk factors and prevalence associated with delayed lectogenesis in postpartum women who recently had GDM.  This can be found above in the "Current Research Assignment" button.

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