Fertility

Did you know that your pre-conception diet can impact your baby’s genes and lifelong health? In addition, diet and nutrition status impacts both male and female fertility. Prepare your body (and your partners!) for conception and pregnancy by seeing our fertility dietitian to:

· Receive nutritional advice for your future baby’s first 1000 days, optimize genetic programming and nutrient stores like folate, vitamin B12, iron and vitamin D.

· Optimize and regulate your fertility hormones

· Tailored supplement plan - there is no one size fits all when it comes to supplements, get the right advice on what to take and when to increase your chancing of conceiving

· Dietary management of conditions (such as endometriosis, insulin resistance or PCOS) that may impact conception

· Help prepare you for your next round of IVF

· Boost egg and sperm health

· Improve egg quality for egg freezing

· Optimize miscarriage recovery, focusing on nutrient repletion and guide you through foods that help reduce the risks of future miscarriage

Prenatal

What you eat during pregnancy not only affects your own health and wellbeing, but also your developing baby’s. It’s during pregnancy that the foundations of your baby’s lifelong physical and mental health are being laid so ensuring your growing baby’s nutritional needs are being met is essential. Ellen, a dietitian specializing in pregnancy can help you optimize your diet by helping with:

· Morning sickness, constipation and reflux

· Boosting energy levels

· Choosing the right prenatal supplement to meet your unique needs

· Healthy pregnancy weight gain

· Confidence with food safety

· Optimizing your gut microbiome

· Reducing the risk (or helping to manage) pregnancy complications such as Gestational diabetes

· Answering your dietary questions

· Nutrition for a multiple pregnancy

Postnatal

Being a new mum can be overwhelming. Everything seems to change. Even something as basic as what to eat suddenly feels complicated. Unfortunately, many women don’t have the support of their mothers as they did in eras gone by, so you can be left feeling confused and isolated. But you’re not alone, Ellen, a dietitian specializing in postnatal nutrition can help you optimize your diet to:

· Meet your nutrition requirements while breastfeeding

· Boost post-birth healing with nutrient-dense foods

· Losing weight after giving birth

· Simplify meal planning for your busy routine

· Support with elimination diets due to food allergies in your breastfed baby

· Dietary management of postpartum constipation and fatigue