Preconception

What is a preconception plan?

Preconception planning tries to:

• Ensure that you achieve optimum health in preparation for a successful pregnancy, then
• Help you maintain your health throughout pregnancy.
• Ensure that your baby is happy, HEALTHY, and bright. )
• Enable you to remain strong and vital throughout breast feeding.
• Ensure that your baby receives optimum nutrition throughout the whole process

Who might benefit from a healthy preconception programme? Just about everybody!

Here's why

Many factors in today's living conditions conspire to denude your body of vital nutritional reserves. Some of those factors are:

• Poor mineral content of Australia's topsoil and water supply
• Highly refined and processed foods
• Storage of foods for long periods
• Refrigeration
• Freezing
• Boiling or other forms of cooking

Not only that, but also you may suffer from contamination of food and water. These can have a negative impact on your liver function - essential for well-being and health - of you and the future little you. They are:

• Pesticide contamination
• Storage chemicals
• Preservatives in prepared foods found in the local supermarket

So, whether you are young or old, you and your baby can benefit from a preconception programme.

"But what if I'm over 32 and thinking of falling pregnant , I might have been a smoker and drinker also?"

A pre-conception program may be of benefit for you if you are trying to fall pregnant and:

• have experienced miscarriages
• are over 32 years of age
• are a smoker
• are a drinker
• want to have the best chance for a healthy baby

Not only that, but also you may have been exposed to pollutants (from smoke, pesticides, demolition sites - especially house renovations) and be worried that the toxicity may affect a future embryo.

Whatever your situation, our preconception programme has shown us that you could have a more successful pregnancy than you might otherwise expect.

How is all of this possible? Our routine tests highlight heavy metal intoxication, tendency to allergy, liver efficiency and current cellular toxicity. Then, by using our targeted nutrition programme, you may improve your own - you're your partner's, if needed - health and your ability to carry a successful pregnancy. Our clinical experience has indicated that your health and that of your baby be superior and that you may also actually have a heavier and more intelligent baby.

So, just how do you go about this interesting process? Firstly, ask us to send you the information package. If you wish, have a chat with one of our naturopaths and we'll outline our programme. From there, it is a quick and easy process to get the relevant information to you.

If you can get in to see us, so much the better.

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FORESIGHT

Foresight, the Association for the Promotion of Preconceptual Care was established in the United Kingdom in 1978. A Foresight study, conducted in conjunction with Surrey University, (published in the Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine 1995), clearly shows the effectiveness of preconception health care.

• When 367 couples followed the full preconception program there was not one miscarriage in the entire study group.
• There were no peri-natal deaths and no malformations. (Without preconception health care, there would be about 70 miscarriages and 12 malformations in a group of similar size).
• 37% of the couples had experienced previous fertility problems (from 1 to 10 years duration). By the end of the study, which ran for 18 months, 81% of those couples had a live healthy baby.
• No baby was born before 36 weeks.
• No baby was lighter than 5lb. 3oz (2368g).

Jan Roberts, pharmacist, nutritionist and co-author of ‘The Natural Way to Better Babies - Preconception Healthcare for Prospective Parents’ and ‘Healthy Parents, Better Babies’ has been the Australian representative of Foresight since 1987.

For information about Foresight booklets/Foresight video/preconception programs (personal or postal) and preconception nutrient packs, please use our Enquiry Form or contact …