HOLISTIC PREGNANCY
MOVE THROUGH PREGNANCY WITH EASE & CONFIDENCE
Ensuring optimal health to minimise risk of complications during pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
HOW I CAN SUPPORT YOU IN
THE 1ST TRIMESTER
- Nausea & morning sicks
- Reduce risk for miscarriage
- Optimise nutritional status & diet
- Immune support to avoid infections
- Fatigue and sleep support
- Support with bleeding and cramping
- Stress and emotional stability
- Anxiety and depression
- Pregnancy loss
- Diet and lifestyle recommendations to improve pregnancy outcomes
HOW I CAN SUPPORT YOU IN
THE 2ND TRIMESTER
- Heartburn and gord
- Hypertension & preeclampsia
- Iron deficiency anaemia
- Stress, emotional stability, anxiety & depression
- Improving gastrointestinal health & microbiome
- Constipation and other gut issues
- Preventing gestational diabetes
- Diet and lifestyle recommendations to improve pregnancy outcomes
- Night time leg cramps & varicose veins
- UTIs
- Insomnia and sleep improvement
HOW I CAN SUPPORT YOU IN
THE 3RD TRIMESTER
- Preventing/treating gestational diabetes
- Group B streptococcus
- PUPP
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Stress, emotional stability, anxiety & depression
- Avoiding genital herpes outbreak pre-birth
- Diet and lifestyle recommendations to improve pregnancy outcomes
- Heartburn, reflux and constipation
- Insomnia and sleep improvement
- Night time leg cramps & varicose veins
HOW I HELP YOU
PREPARE FOR BIRTH
- Optimise vaginal microbiome prior to birth
- Diet and lifestyle recommendations to improve labour and birth
- Ensures your nutritional requirements are met before going into labour. For example, if your iron is low, there is an increased risk of haemorrhage just after birth, so we want to help ensure your nutrition is optimal.
- Can prepare your body for the labour and birth to ensure good muscle tone and circulation in your uterus, soften and tone your cervix, and generally assist you in your preparation for an easier, uncomplicated labour and birth.
- Birth kit remedies to enhance the birth, assist with immediate post natal healing, encouraging milk flow, assist sleep and promote energy.
NATUROPATHIC PREGNANCY CARE
This is a 9-month package to support you through your pregnancy. We will touch base once per month, helping with any symptoms that may arise, optimising health for mama and baby and preparing for the birth and the early weeks after baby.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
INITIAL CONSULTATION
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9 x CONTINUED CARE CONSULTATION
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BIRTH & POSTPARTUM PLAN TEMPLATE
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MULTIPLE HANDOUTS PER TRIMESTER
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CHECKLISTS
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PREGNANCY NUTRITION EBOOK
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SUPPLEMENT, DIET & LIFESTYLE RECOMMENDATIONS AS NEEDED
*Prescribed supplements & functional testing are priced during consultation and are not included in the package.
How does Naturopathic Pregnancy Care Work?
I am like your clinical detective, I will draw upon my training (Bachelor in Health Science) and pull together information from your previous health history, current health issues, pathology test results and other sources to get to the root cause of why you’re unwell (yay, science!). But I also have a slightly woo-woo side – drawing upon my experience amongst healers in Brazil. So rest assured that I have all things covered.
Depending on your individual presentation I may utilise some of the following diagnostic assessment tools:
Nutritional deficiency checks
Hormonal balance tests
Detailed dietary assessment
Blood tests to assess your cellular health and tissue performance
Genetic testing regarding metabolism of specific nutrients
Diagnosed conditions such as autoimmune or thyroid conditions
Signs and symptoms in any system you reveal in your consultation
A detailed personal and family health history
Environmental toxin load from work or home
The information gathered during the investigation helps me put together a plan to improve your health with diet, lifestyle, herbs and nutrition, decreasing those annoying and nagging symptoms that are stopping you from reaching your full potential. So that you can enjoy life again.
Your plan is delivered in a Treatment plan Consultation (which is delivered 1-2 weeks after you initial consultation). The plan will always include very detailed diet and lifestyle interventions (food as medicine), specific to you, which is also appropriately augmented with nutritional supplementation, herbal medicine and sometimes lifestyle modifications.
I may also recommend support from other practitioners or be in communication with other carers to ensure comprehensive care and optimum results. The aim is to ensure you have sufficient energy and nutritional status to live life the way you dream of.