Pre-Post Pregnancy Support
Supporting Your Baby’s Health Starts Before Conception
Food is medicine and this is no exception before, during and after pregnancy.
Your nutrition before and during pregnancy can affect both your health and the development of the foetus.
Optimizing your health before conceiving can ensure a smooth pregnancy and a healthy baby.
Your baby relies on your body for the essential nutrients to survive and thrive, and your nutritional needs will change significantly during this time of your life.
During pregnancy, the recommended intake of many nutrients increases. Nutritional deficiencies before and during pregnancy can increase the potential for birth defects and draw nutrients from your body to support your unborn child. This can lead to health problems after pregnancy.
If you have nutritional deficiencies before you conceive, this should be supported as the demands for vitamins and minerals increase during conception & childbirth.
By making sure that you are meeting the correct nutritional requirements before conception, you are supporting your health and that of your baby from the moment you conceive.
The changes you make to your nutrition before pregnancy can affect what happens during it.
Nutrition is not the only thing to consider. From a functional medicine perspective, there can be many other factors that affect the wellbeing of mother and baby, from pre-conception through to post-pregnancy.
We can address lifestyle and environmental factors to ensure a smoother pregnancy and help mother and baby to thrive.
Optimize Your Health Before Conception
Because the months leading up to conception can have a significant impact on the health of mother and baby, this is a crucial time to optimize your health.
With a functional medicine approach, we can ensure that the body is cleared of all toxins so that your body is a safe environment for baby to thrive. This is crucial given that we are exposed to countless toxins in everyday life, all of which can impact your baby and yourself.
Understanding the factors that can make pregnancy less smooth and affect baby’s heath can ensure that pregnancy is a wonderful time of life.
We won’t suggest taking medications - with functional medicine, the focus is on creating balance through nutrition.
We work alongside your primary care physicians and doctors to complement the conventional medical care that you may be receiving.
Functional medicine is root cause medicine and where necessary, we can recommend tests to ensure that your health is optimized.
Pregnancy Nutrition for A Healthy Baby (and Mum!)
After conception, nutrition can feel complex and food can become a source of anxiety and overwhelm.
With pregnancy nutrition support, you can feel confident in the food choices you’re making and remove the confusion about what is safe to eat during pregnancy.
Pregnancy nutrition support can also reduce the risk of gestational diabetes and high blood pressure, and promote a healthy birth weight.
In short, we can make it much more likely that both mother and baby can thrive during pregnancy and beyond.
Correct Nutrition Is Essential After Pregnancy Too
After pregnancy, nutrition is still very important, especially if you are breastfeeding.
Breast milk provides all of the nutrients that babies need and almost all of this comes from your body. We can support breast milk production through nutrition and lifestyle interventions too.
Nutrient intake and energy needs also change while breastfeeding and it’s crucial to support this with the right nutrition.
Even if you will not be breastfeeding, pregnancy and birth can put a lot of stress on the body. Addressing this through the correct nutrition supports the body to recover from the changes that have occurred during pregnancy.
Birth experience can play a significant role in post-pregnancy nutrition too. A Caesarean birth or experiencing trauma during birth increases the need to promote healing too.
