Re: fasting when pregnant
This is what I've heard about the fasting from an Aalim. If someone does miss out the fasts due to pregnancy or breast-feeding, you have to make up for the fasts, even if you choose to feed the poor/needy. If say you don't fast and for some reason you could not make up for the fasts during the whole year (breast-feeding or illness) and the next ramadhan comes, you still have to make up for the previous year AS WELL AS give Fidya (money to poor for the whole month for fasting). Praise be to Allaah. 'If a Muslim does not fast in Ramadaan for a shar’i reason, he has to make up that fast after the reason no longer applies. He must hasten to do this as soon as possible. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “…but if any of you is ill or on a journey, the same number (should be made up) from other days…” ' [al-Baqarah 2:184]