Below are some of my favorite resources that are great for pre-conception through lactation.
Feed Your Body, Grow Your Family!™ programs
My very own trilogy of six-week programs for parents-to-be! I’m proud to say we have a wonderful community of program instructors who are available to help you prepare for conception and optimize your fertility by making simple adjustments to your nutrition and lifestyle.
Timing Intercourse & Optimizing Progesterone
Shopping Guides: Real Food and Non-Toxic Products
- Find real food with the Weston A. Price Foundation’s annual Shopping Guide.
This guide is available as a hard copy or an app for mobile devices. - Environmental Working Group.
This site allows you to view ingredient and rating information for thousands of skin and body care products. Search for toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, sunscreen, and more on the Skin Deep database. The EWG has a series of consumer guides (including their water filter guide) listed on www.ewg.org/consumer-guides. You can read helpful information on various topics relating to the selection of food, cleaning products, water filters, and more.
Home and Body Care
Limiting Toxic Exposures
- Considerations about your drinking water
- Mercury exposure: considerations for preconception and pregnancy
- Non-toxic baby products: https://www.gentlenursery.com/
- Home and body care products: http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
- Non-toxic certification for a range of products, including baby gear and household goods: http://madesafe.org/
- Non-toxic cookware: https://wellnessmama.com/5148/
safest-cookware-options/ - Looking for more information about why and how to avoid toxic exposures? madesafe.org and http://www.ourstolenfuture.
org/
Further Learning & Reading Materials Nutrition, food preparation, and the food system in general:
- Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions
- Sandor Katz, Wild Fermentation
- Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Nutrition for pre-conception, pregnancy, and beyond:
- Sally Fallon Morell and Thomas Cowan, Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care. Includes great information for pregnancy, postpartum, baby, and child care.
- Kristin Michaelis, Beautiful Babies; Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Baby’s First Foods
- Rebecca Fett, It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds with IVF
- Lily Nichols, Real Food for Pregnancy
- Catherine Shanahan and Luke Shanahan, Deep Nutrition
Applying the Fertility Awareness Method:
Toni Wechsler, Taking Charge of Your Fertility
Education and training resources for practitioners:
- Become a nutritional therapy practitioner: Nutritional Therapy Association
- Specialize in fertility
Helpful Social Media Accounts:
Instagram:
- @dreverywoman
- @healthykids_happykids
- @emma.bardwell
- @nicolemjardim
- @gentleleaps
- @megan__garcia
- @ebbirth
Facebook:
Online group/community with discussion and resource-sharing:
https://www.facebook.com/