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Why should you drink milk during pregnancy?

Updated 25 Oct 2026

Fresh milk provides mums-to-be with a good amount of calcium along with other micronutrients.

You can drink sweetened, unsweetened or low-sugar fresh milk according to your taste. However, mums-to-be with high blood pressure, gestational diabetes or a risk of gestational diabetes, and those who are overweight, should drink unsweetened fresh milk.

Choose fresh milk from a clear source that has been treated before drinking; both pasteurised and UHT (sterilised) milk are fine. How much milk you drink depends on your diet. You can have 200ml - 600ml a day. You can also replace milk with dairy products such as yoghurt or cheese.

In particular, in the last 3 months of pregnancy you should have about 6 units of milk a day. Using the formula:

1 unit of milk = 100ml fresh milk = 100g yoghurt = 15g cheese.

However, do not overdo milk either. You need a suitable diet. Milk alone is not enough to provide the nutrition you and your baby need.

Reference: benhvienphusantrunguong.org.vn

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Content advised by our doctors.

  1. benhvienphusantrunguong.org.vn

This article helps you understand and prepare. It does not replace a check-up. For an answer about your own situation, please ask the doctor who is caring for you.

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