
Explore how nutrition, lifestyle, and preconception health shape pregnancy outcomes for women and men, including trimester needs, food safety, and considerations for Ramadan and vegetarian diets.
Preview the course contents video for pregnancy nutrition and lifestyle, outlining the topics covered in this module.
Explore how nutrition shapes development and lifelong health, detailing macronutrients, micronutrients, energy balance, nutrient density, and the impact of maternal nutrition on offspring.
Explore preconception care and healthy nutrition for a healthy pregnancy, outlining weight gain guidelines and key nutrients such as folic acid, iron, vitamin d, and omega-3.
Explore how nutrition before and during pregnancy shapes fetal development, highlighting safe foods, food safety practices, and key risks from toxoplasmosis, listeria, mercury, caffeine, and alcohol.
Explore physiological and metabolic adaptations during pregnancy, including hormonal changes, cardiovascular and renal adjustments, and maternal energy metabolism to support fetal growth.
Adopt a healthy lifestyle to support pregnancy by avoiding tobacco, limiting alcohol and caffeine, and staying physically active. Manage stress and choose safe medicines and foods for you and baby.
Explore preconception health and practical steps for a healthy, safe pregnancy, including folic acid, avoiding harmful substances, weight management, mental health, genetic counseling, and prenatal care.
Explore diet-related conditions in pregnancy, including nausea and vomiting, changes in taste and appetite, constipation, anemia, gestational diabetes, and hypertensive disorders such as pre-eclampsia, with diet and lifestyle strategies.
Travel safely during pregnancy across car, plane, bus, train, boating, and cruises. Wear seat belts properly, stay hydrated, take regular breaks, and carry medical documents for travel.
In this course I will try to explain to you why healthy nutrition and lifestyle are so important for both women and men. In addition, we must all understand that healthy nutrition and lifestyle must begin before conception, during pregnancy and after birth, if we want healthy children.
So, I will start from the basics of what is healthy nutrition and lifestyle and how important it is for foetal development, how this affects pregnancy, the fundamentals of healthy nutrition and lifestyle and also, the nutritional requirements of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
You will also be able to understand the physiological and metabolic adaptions of pregnancy, the diet-related conditions during pregnancy, the travelling during pregnancy and of course a management guide and some tips for a healthy and safe pregnancy.
I made this course with great love and sensitivity and with unlimited respect to all women wishing to become mothers.