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Because indulging in good food is one of the few vices left to women once pregnant, I am including it as a therapy. I am not going to patronize you with lectures about the benefits of healthy eating, you know the rules. Just don’t do as I did in my first pregnancy and use the lady-with-a-baby excuse to binge for nine months on chocolate and snacks. I put on two stone and produced an 8-lb baby. Second-time around, when I binged on fruit, vegetables and anything healthy from the deli, I put on no extra weight and produced two babies weighing a total of 13lb. That’s more like it.

Maternal nutrition is going to matter in the run-up to the birth (and in recovering afterwards), so do think carefully about what passes your lips. Imagine you are training to run a marathon and eat accordingly. You want to be as fit as possible for labour and new motherhood. In the first couple of months of your pregnancy you want to eat ‘nutrient-dense’ food because the placenta, a national-grid-like infrastructure supplying the baby, is developing.