Nutrition and Pregnancy

The Critical Time Before Pregnancy

While better health should always be a goal to keep for yourself, you want to be as healthy as possible before you conceive. Both your diet and your weight can impact conception as well as your pregnancy. If you’re not eating healthily and/or you are underweight/overweight, this can negatively impact conception. Do your best to establish a healthy diet and achieve a healthy weight before you are pregnant to be optimally prepared for conception as well as the 9-month marathon that we call pregnancy. Special food regimens require an in depth check for optimal nutrient content–vegan, vegetarian, paleo, autoimmune, etc. Cell division happens fast so there is little time to do damage control. Timing of nutrient availability is critical. The earlier you start to optimally nourish yourself the easier and healthier your pregnancy will be, and those dividends transfer to your baby, or babies. And let us not forget the contribution of the father. His contribution obviously plays an important role in the process. Don’t compromise with your choices Dad, the results, good or bad, are forever. Questions, concerns, it is really easy to get it right. Let’s talk.