When performing nutrition counseling during prenatal visits, nurses should stress all of the following information except
1. All women of childbearing age should consume 0.4 mg of folic acid each day through diet or through supplementation to help prevent fetal abnormalities.
2. Basic nutritional recommendations for pregnant women are to increase their caloric intake by approximately 15% and eat one or two additional servings of dairy products.
3. It is important to hold weight gain to around 20 pounds during pregnancy; this is particularly true for older women and ethnic minorities who tend to be obese.
4. Iron supplements are needed by almost all pregnant women to promote fetal and placental growth and increase maternal red blood cell mass.
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