“We’re trying for a baby. We already enjoy a relatively healthy diet but is there anything we should be eating?”
If you have a balanced diet, with a healthy combination of all five food groups, you should both be getting everything you need. However, you could give your folic acid intake a natural boost by eating dark and leafy green vegetables, granary bread, fortified breakfast cereals and brown rice. You could also increase your calcium intake by drinking a pint of milk every day.