What have you fed your baby today?
While you’re pregnant, you are your baby’s world. When you eat, you are feeding your baby too. What you eat during your pregnancy can make a real difference to your baby’s growth and development. Eating healthy food is even more important now that you are pregnant. Healthy eating can also make a difference to your own health during pregnancy and for life. It can help you to prevent or control some of the discomforts of pregnancy, like nausea, constipation and heartburn.
It’s important to look at your eating habits while you’re pregnant. Your eating habits have a great influence on your family’s eating habits. Developing healthy eating habits now will help you, your baby, and your family stay healthy for life. Healthy eating is good for you, good for your baby, and delicious, too. A Food Guide to Healthy Eating will help you plan meals and snacks high in nutrients you need for a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby.
A consultation for pregnancy will include:
Full nutritional assessment and personalized nutritional counseling
A comprehensive eating guide. This guide will help to ensure that among other nutrients, ones that are in high demand during pregnancy such as Calcium, Iron, Folic acid and Vitamin D are taken in adequate amounts.
Sample mealplans and recipes
Ways to ensure you are meeting nutritional recommendations if you have food restrictions or are vegetarian
Guidelines to help with common problems during pregnancy, such as heartburn, constipation, and naseau and vomiting
Information on alcohol, caffeine, artificial sweeteners as well as food safety information
Healthy weight range calculation and personalized weight graphing for gestational weeks
Supplement information
