My Services
I can help you with the following services:
A mini-consult to discuss your pregnancy-related side effects and find a natural solution to them, using food and fluids instead of medications. This mini-consult includes a review of your 3-day food diary to ensure advice is personally tailored to your unique dietary intake.
A comprehensive review of your medical history, current dietary intake, supplements and medications, and pregnancy-related side effects to optimize your nutrition during pregnancy.
Regular check-ins throughout your pregnancy to adjust dietary intake and nutrition goals, as well as provide nutrition education adapted to your needs and your trimester of pregnancy.
Prenatal nutrition support throughout your pregnancy. This program begins with a Prenatal Nutrition Assessment followed by 8 customized Review Consults.
Some of the areas in which I can be of help:
Side Effects
Treating pregnancy side effects (nausea and vomiting, constipation, urinary tract infections, heartburn).
Supplement Intake
Personally-tailored advice regarding which fertility and/or prenatal supplement(s) are best suited to you based on your blood lab values and current dietary intake.
Eating Plan
Individually-tailored advice regarding caloric intake, fertility/pregnancy weight management recommendations and a dietary plan that ensures you are getting the right balance of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, fluids, vitamins, and minerals.
Complications
Prevention of pregnancy-related complications for mum (gestational diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, pre-eclampsia, perinatal anxiety and depression, recurrent miscarriage, type 1 diabetes, IBS during pregnancy, bariatric surgery, cholestasis).
Health Risks
Preventing future health risks for baby (immune development, food allergies, fussy eating, obesity and chronic disease, neurodevelopment, autism, ADHD).
Nutrition Myths
Debunking fertility and pregnancy nutrition myths (listeria, heavy metals, beverages during pregnancy, trending foods during pregnancy, etc.).
"That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language."
– Emily Perkins
