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Phil Baker, Professor of fetal and maternal health at St Mary’s hospital, Manchester says, ‘I see so many women who are blaming themselves for a miscarriage or still birth when usually they could have done absolutely nothing to avoid it. It is important to have a basically balanced diet, which includes vegetables, protein, carbohydrate, fats and vitamins. If you are entirely starved it will have implications for the birth weight of your baby.’ Most of us do our best to eat more healthily when pregnant but even if we can’t – because, for instance, we’re throwing up – our bodies, says Professor Baker, should already contain good stores of certain nutrients which will get us through pregnancy. (This might explain why women with severe morning sickness, who can keep nothing down, can still produce miraculously healthy babies.)