Prenatal Care
Getting Ready
Prenatal Care is a type of preventive healthcare with the goal of providing regular assessments that allow doctors or health care professionals to treat and prevent potential health problems throughout the course of the pregnancy while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child.
During each visit, pregnant women and woman preparing for pregnancy, will receive medical information over maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins.
**Recommendations on management and healthy lifestyle changes are also made during regular visits**
The availability of routine prenatal care has played a part in reducing maternal death rates, high risk pregnancies and miscarriages as well asbirth defects, low birth weight, neonatal infections and other preventable health problems.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that in 2015 around 830 women died every day from problems in pregnancy and childbirth.
Although prenatal care is important for improving the health of the mother and baby, many women do not receive the preventative care they and their babies need.
PREPARATION
Preparing your body for pregnancy is a crucial part to starting of on a healthy foot. Believe it or not, as woman we have a lot more control in the healthy development of our child than you might have known. In fact, the weight of the unborn baby reflects directly on the body composition of the woman carrying him.
Over weight or obese women are more likely to have a high risk pregnancy and or complications at birth in addition to other preventable health care problems;
While underweight women are more likely to have premature or underweight babies in addition to more preventable health care problems.
This is why the prenatal stage is so important. B lifted helps women achieve their ideal weight 3 months BEFORE pregnancy. We teach healthy eating habits and give support so that you get used to the healthy body you and your baby will be living in. This stage will also make your post baby transformation so much easier and quicker to achieve.
Once you achieve your ideal pre baby weight, B lifted adjusts your meal plan and provides recommendations of foods that will promote fertility. We also suggest foods and specific instructions for the soon to be dad to promote healthy sperm.