You’re pregnant! Now what?
This is the first day of the rest of your life
Pregnancy is such an exciting time! This is also a time with LOTS of questions as well as new or changing health concerns. Once your baby has arrived, becoming a parent for the first time or adding another child to your family is a major life change that is all at once joyful, confusing, and exhausting. Supporting a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum healing can make this major transition smoother.
As your baby grows (so fast!), it can be hard to keep up with all the information, advice, and guidelines out there regarding eating, sleeping, and overall health. No wonder these are key times that patients seek out guidance, support, and reassurance through naturopathic care!
I have experience with all stages of pregnancy, postpartum, and new parenthood, including:
- Supporting healthy pregnancy
- Gestational diabetes
- Gestational hypertension
- Labour preparation
- Postpartum healing and support
- Caesarean recovery
- Infant and toddler feeding
- Infant and toddler sleep
- Common childhood health issues
My approach to supporting expecting and new parents:
It is such a privilege to support patients through the major life changes of pregnancy and becoming a parent. There is nothing better than being part of the journey to and through parenthood!
First, we talk through the subjective information which includes current health concerns, history and treatments, and overall medical history and timeline. This subjective information helps me understand your overall health and identify relevant tests and/or treatments. In many cases, there are naturopathic therapies (diet, lifestyle, nutritional supplements, herbs, remedies) that can be applied immediately to support you during pregnancy.
Next, we review the objective information already available, such as testing you’ve already completed, and/or gather additional objective information via further testing to more definitively rule in or out health needs or concerns to address to give additional direction to treatment.
As soon as patients are expecting, they always have A LOT of questions. The goals during pregnancy are:
- Provide trimester by trimester guidance and support
- Address health concerns that may arise or worsen during pregnancy
- Establish sustainable and health promoting habits
- Prepare for labour and birth
- Provide guidance and resources for postpartum recovery and new parenthood
Following birth, the questions don’t stop, but now you have a baby to take care of! The goals postpartum are:
- Support physical, mental, and emotional healing
- Address health concerns in parent and/or baby
- Establish sustainable and health promoting habits
- Provide guidance and resources for many aspects of new parenthood
Related Knowledge, Courses, and Training:
- Guide to Breastfeeding by Dr. Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman
- Breastfeeding, Empowering Parents by Dr. Jack Newman
- Breastfeeding 101
- Naturopathic Support for Pre- and Post-Natal Obstetrics
- Peri Natal CAM Review
- Naturopathic Medicine for the First 18 Months of Life
- The Microbiome and Pediatric Health
- Primary Care in Infancy to Childhood
- Herbal Applications for Pediatric Patients
- Homeopathic Prescribing for Pediatrics Made Easy
- Infant Sleep 101
- Naturopathic Doula Course
Helpful articles:
- Antidepressants during pregnancy
- 5 ways to reduce nausea of pregnancy
- My birth story: Alexandra
- My birth story: Jasper
- Kids needs to get sick
- The truth about fever
- ABC’s of keeping our kids well
Ready to work together?
Book a free 15 minute Meet and Greet consultation to learn more about me, Naturopathic Medicine, and find out if this is a good fit for you.