The foods you choose during pregnancy can influence how you feel and help your growing baby have the best start in life.
This time of anticipation and excitement can raise many questions about how best to care for your growing baby and body. Feed Your Pregnant BodyTM guides you through those questions and more!
Discover how to feel your best during pregnancy while growing a baby with foods rich in the nutrients that support healthy development. In fact, prenatal nutrition really is one of the foremost foundations for your baby’s health throughout life. What an amazing gift to give your child and family!
About the Program
The Feed Your Pregnant Body™ program guides you through nutrition and lifestyle steps to optimize your chances of having a healthy baby and feeling great throughout pregnancy!
You will receive a workbook filled with food suggestions, recipes, and strategies to prevent (where possible) and limit common pregnancy symptoms like nausea, fatigue, cravings for sugars and starches, reflux, heartburn and more, along with actionable steps every week that help make the recommendations achievable.
The nutritional and lifestyle recommendations are designed to help you feel better throughout pregnancy, have an easier labor and delivery, optimize breastfeeding outcomes and post-partum recovery, and ultimately help you have a healthier baby.
Optimal prenatal nutrition has as its main goals the building of a healthy baby and the nourishing of a healthy mother, which in turn builds a strong foundation for healthy nutrition for the whole family.
What You Will Learn
Nutrition basics, morning sickness and carbohydrate cravings
- Causes of morning sickness and nausea
- Basic remedies for nausea
- How to deal with carbohydrate cravings
- Top foods to nourish you and your growing baby when you have nausea and carbohydrate cravings
Managing fatigue during pregnancy
- Causes of fatigue
- The connection between blood sugar imbalances and fatigue
- The importance of thyroid health
- Optimizing your food selection criteria
- The nutrient-dense foods that energize you and help your baby grow optimally
- Lifestyle strategies for managing fatigue
Protecting your baby from toxic exposures
- Why fear is the most damaging of all exposures
- Other toxic exposures to look out for
- How to prioritize the avoidance of exposures
- How and why every small step you take in the right direction is a huge gift to yourself, your baby and your family
Taking your pregnancy nutrition to the next level
- How to eat
- The role of fat-soluble vitamins in your baby’s development
- Hydration tips
- How to upgrade your sleep habits
- Common concerns regarding nutrition and food safetys
Pregnancy Digest: optimizing digestive and gut health
- How to prevent/limit/address reflux, heartburn and constipation
- Some underlying reasons for common digestive issues
- How balanced gut flora supports a healthy pregnancy
- How your healthy gut flora during pregnancy contributes to your baby’s lifelong health
- How your healthy gut flora reduces your chances of a positive Group B Strep (GBS) result, and why this matters
Preparing for birth, breastfeeding and postpartum
- How to plan ahead for post-partum healing
- How to help friends and family be truly helpful
- Strategies to optimize milk production and breastfeeding outcomes
What is included?
- Group session(s) led by a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
- Workbook containing:
- Class materials
- Resources for home and body care
- Information on GMO’s
- Further reading & resource suggestions
- Pregnancy-supporting food chart
- Meal planning templates
- Recipes
- Practical action steps broken down into easy weekly tasks with foods to add, replace and remove
- Access to our private Facebook group for discussion, sharing, and support
- A sampling of nutrient-dense foods to taste (on-site groups)
- A hands-on fermentation workshop (on-site groups)
- A gentle prenatal stretch & tone session (on-site groups)
- Meal planning recommendations and recipe ideas
- Further study resources; books, movies, articles, etc.
- Steps for reducing toxins, stress and more!
Cost & Location Details
Date: Friday, March 23rd, 2018
Time: 9AM to 5PM
Location: The Retreat, Palm Jumeirah
Cost: AED 950 (including a healthy lunch & snacks)
For enquiries and course information, please do get in touch.
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