The Year Before Baby

Whether you are nervous to be pregnant because you feel your health is off, or you

are hoping to be pregnant and finding that your body isn't ready, here are fundamentals and key tips in one easy format. This series of short videos can be covered in a week and implemented on your own.

You'll have confidence and excitement about another pregnancy because you'll understand what led to fatigue, nausea, mood changes, and other complications around your previous pregnancies.

Intro pricing til September 8th includes a complimentary 1:1 coaching session via Zoom, where we spend 90 minutes discussing your individual situation and developing a plan spefici to your needs.

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Your Body

⁃ why insulin isn’t an enemy

⁃ Intro to cortisol

⁃ Intro to thyroid

⁃ Hemoglobin and ferritin

⁃ Cycle review

⁃ Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin

⁃ Tracking and using data and key reference numbers to know

⁃ Sleep, adenosine, circadian rhythm

⁃ Leptin and ghrelin

Nutrition and Supplements

⁃ when steady blood sugar is not ideal

⁃ How habitually waiting to eat changes your metabolism

⁃ NIMGU and carb loading

⁃ learning from CGM

⁃ only Whole Foods are rarely enough calories

⁃ Causes of long cycles and delayed or absent ovulation

⁃ Signs you need more iron

⁃ Why normal hemoglobin does not mean you have enough iron in the rest of your body

⁃ Why high dose iodine is key if you haven’t been attending to your thyroid

Movement and Strength

Carving out calming moments

⁃ Laughter and humor

⁃ Mouth and tongue stretching and singing

⁃ Posture while sitting, standing, driving

⁃ Daily life activities that contribute to strength and metabolism-

housecleaning, gardening

⁃ Playing with kids is a workout

⁃ Maintaining and rebuilding Core strength

⁃ Best 10-15 exercises for various goals

⁃ Easy Weekly foods to nourish (salmon, nuts, chia, pumpkin seeds, breakfast meat

⁃ Joints and flexibility

Routines and Family Life

⁃ what are you optimizing for?

⁃ savoring beauty and moments

⁃ Family culture reality check: key times and show me what you do

⁃ Training and delegating yourself out of household jobs

⁃ Saying no in nice ways

⁃ Accepting limits of time and energy

⁃ Managing cortisol through food and behavior

⁃ Communication before burnout

⁃ Stopping the cycle of negotiation

Rest and Recovery

bedtime procrastination

⁃ Getting time that feels like your own

⁃ Sample morning, mid day and evening routines from different families

⁃ Getting couple time around kids’ sleep and your sleep

⁃ Maintaining friendships

⁃ Relationships that build health: feeling seen, loved, needed, supported