Archive: Prenatal & Postpartum Nutrition

Does this sound familiar? It’s incredibly easy to forget to eat while caring for a newborn at home. Between feeding your baby, sleeping in short stretches, and recovering from birth (you did an amazing thing!), your own meals often fall to the bottom of the list. Hormonal changes, fatigue, and the physical demands of healing…

No one wants to get that phone call from their healthcare provider saying they failed their first glucose test in pregnancy. I still vividly remember my midwife telling me I needed to redo the test, this time the dreaded two-hour glucose tolerance test. That meant drinking the awful orange (or sometimes white) sugary drink again.…