Fertility and Pregnancy Nutrition

PREGNANCY

Did you know the first 1000 days of your baby’s life is crucial for their lifelong health and wellbeing?

How well a mother and her baby are nourished during this time has a significant impact on the child’s ability to grow, learn and thrive. This starts from the moment they are conceived – and so receiving good nutrition in the womb is essential for your child’s future health. A baby’s metabolism, immune system and organ development is influenced by the mother’s diet, weight and lifestyle habits - so what you do in these early days really matters!

Here at Health Management, we can help to ensure you are getting the optimal nutrition to help support a healthy pregnancy.

This includes:

-       Personalised meal plan tailored to your individual needs

-       Food safety advice during pregnancy

-       Managing symptoms (appetite, cravings, food aversions)

-       Nutritional adequacy for special diets (vegan/coeliac etc)

-       Gestational diabetes/hypertension/pre-eclampsia

-       Weight management support

FERTILITY

In Australia, 1 in 6 couples experience fertility issues.

Fertility can be affected by a number of different reasons including medical and physical factors, and now there is good evidence that diet also has a significant role to play!

The egg takes around 90 days to fertilise - therefore your nutrient stores from the last 3 months have a very important impact on the health of your eggs, and consequently your chance of conceiving. In fact, studies have shown that adopting specific diet and lifestyle measures can improve fertility by almost 70%!

As well as nutritional intake, being either underweight, or overweight, can impact your fertility journey. Did you know women who are obese are three times more likely to experience fertility issues than women of a healthy weight?

At Health Management, we can help you achieve a healthy pre-pregnancy weight, to support your fertility journey. This also involves improving your nutritional intake to optimise egg health, and therefore increase your chances of conceiving.

How can we help?

-       Healthy body weight for conception and pregnancy

-       Personalised meal plan tailored to your individual needs

-       Important foods to include/avoid in your diet for fertility

-       Nutritional adequacy + supplementation