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7 Foods for Your Breastfeeding Diet
7 Foods for Your Breastfeeding Diet Just to get this off the table, a healthy diet is NOT required to be able to breastfeed, HOWEVER, it is optimal to eat a well-balanced diet, just like it is best to eat healthy at any stage in your life! The better your nutrition is...
5 Reasons to Include Fermented Foods in Your Prenatal Diet
5 Reasons to Include Fermented Foods in Your Prenatal DietI feel like most people either really love or hate fermented foods. If it’s been a while since you’ve tried anything fermented, I highly recommend it! Fermented foods contain natural probiotics which help...
3 Ways to Ace Preconception Nutrition
3 Ways to ACE Preconception Nutrition If you are planning your pregnancy, NOW is the time to optimize your intake to its full potential. Why? It is ideal to reach your very best nutrition prior to actually becoming pregnant because the first trimester comes quick and...
How to Manage Morning Sickness
How to Manage Morning Sickness The key question I want to answer in this blog is, "how is baby getting enough nutrients if I am having so much nausea that I can barely keep any food down, not even one cracker." This is a question that I get quite frequently which is...
Savory Instant Pot Beef Stew
Instant Pot Beef Stew Total time: 45 minutes Servings: ~ 8 (depends on serving size) Ingredients: 1- 1.5 lbs stew meat 1 bag Trader Joe's tiny white potatoes 1 bag of baby carrots ½ Acorn Squash 2 shallots 32 oz. broth (veggie, beef, or chicken) 1 tbsp tomato paste 2...
5 Facts You NEED to Know About Choline
5 Facts You Need to Know About Choline Choline was first established as an essential nutrient by the Institute of Medicine in 1998. It has continually been researched and promoted due to its critical role in our health. While its role is rather complicated, it is...
5 Common Myths During Pregnancy
"I've waited nine months to eat this sushi!" "Ugh, do you have any decaf? I'm pregnant." "Is it pasteurized? I'm not sure if I can drink that." These are all statements I've heard from women who are pregnant. Unfortunately, there are a lot of question marks when it...
What to Look for in Your Prenatal Vitamin
How to choose a prenatal vitamin First, I want to start by saying, it is very hard to make a blanket recommendation when it comes to taking prenatal vitamins because everyone is starting at a different place nutritionally, follow various diets, and may eliminate...
10 Foods to Definitely Include in Your Prenatal Diet
What foods should you include in your diet now that you are responsible for the health of a growing baby? While there is no list of "superfoods" that will guarantee you to have a perfect pregnancy or the smartest baby on the block, this list has several foods that...
Is my breastfeeding diet different than my pregnancy diet?
Nutrition and Breastfeeding Many people think eating during pregnancy is the difficult part and once they have the baby there is a small sigh of relief because they don't have to follow all the "strict" rules of pregnancy anymore, however; breastfeeding is still a...
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