Prenatal Nutrition: Nourishing You and Your Baby
Good prenatal nutrition is about so much more than taking a prenatal vitamin. Your nutrition and well-being during pregnancy can affect fetal development, your energy levels, your risk for complications, and your own physical health. But navigating prenatal nutrition can be genuinely confusing. Between the foods you are told to avoid, the supplements you are told to take, the weight-gain guidance you receive, and the constant flood of well-meaning (but often conflicting) advice, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and anxious about every meal.
Our prenatal dietitians provide clear, personalized guidance that cuts through the noise. We help you understand what your body truly needs during each trimester, how to manage common pregnancy symptoms like nausea, food aversions, and heartburn, and how to build an eating pattern that nourishes both you and your baby without adding unnecessary stress or restriction to your plate.
Maternity Dietitian: Supporting You Across Fertility, Pregnancy, and Beyond
Our maternity dietitians work with clients across the full perinatal spectrum, from preconception nutrition planning through the postpartum period and beyond. If you are navigating fertility challenges and wondering whether nutrition has a role to play, if you have received a gestational diabetes diagnosis and are unsure how to manage your blood sugar while eating well, or if you are managing a pregnancy with a history of an eating disorder, we have specialized experience in all of these areas and will support you with care and clinical precision.
Postpartum Dietitian: Nourishing Recovery and New Parenthood
The postpartum period is a time of significant physical recovery, yet it is also a time when new parents are often told to “bounce back” as quickly as possible. Our postpartum dietitians reject this narrative entirely. Postpartum nutrition is about replenishing your body after birth, supporting healing, sustaining energy through what is often a period of profound sleep deprivation, and fueling breastfeeding if that is your choice, not shrinking your body back to a pre-pregnancy size.
We support new parents in meeting the nutritional demands of postpartum recovery with practical, flexible, and realistic strategies for the chaos of early parenthood. We also recognize that the postpartum period can be an emotionally vulnerable time, and we bring awareness of postpartum depression, anxiety, and disordered eating risk to all of our work with new parents.
Areas of Expertise
- Preconception nutrition and optimizing fertility through food
- First, second, and third trimester nutrition: Managing nausea, food aversions, and other pregnancy symptoms through nutrition
- Gestational diabetes nutrition counseling
- Pregnancy with a history of eating disorders
- Vegetarian, vegan, and special-diet prenatal nutrition
- Postpartum recovery nutrition
- Breastfeeding and lactation support from a dietitian’s perspective
- Postpartum = nutrition and body image
- Eating disorders and disordered eating during and after pregnancy
Prenatal & Postpartum Dietitian
Our prenatal and postpartum dietitians see clients in person at offices throughout the Triangle area and Charlotte, NC, and via secure telehealth across North Carolina and Oregon. We can also work with individuals in many other states via telehealth, depending on each state’s dietetic licensure laws. If you are looking for a prenatal or postpartum dietitian near you, we welcome you to reach out and get started today.
