Today on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking to the wonderful Nicky Lowe, founder of Wisdom for Working Mums, supporting women to combine their work and family life in a more successful and sustainable way, helping mums to truly thrive.
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This week's episode on Raising Healthy Mothers is a bit of a personal one, because I'm talking about the stress I've been experiencing in the last 7 months and the journey I've been on to cope with it and build my resilience which has clearly taken a knock in the past two years since becoming a mother.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking to Francesca Mastrojanni, nutritional therapist, about blood testing and why we use it in practice as nutritional therapists and how it can help us to understand our clients's symptoms and help focus on a plan.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking about supplements and whether you should consider supplements beyond pregnancy and into motherhood.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm talking about all things tea with the fab Bethan Thomas of HotTea Mama. After moving to China, Bethan fell in love with all things tea and started a lifelong obsession with it, culminating in founding a tea company making functional teas specifically for mums and womanhood.
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This week on Raising Healthy Mothers, I'm speaking to Bec Milligan, a fellow nutritional therapist and EFT practitioner. We discuss building stress resilience as a mother and having a toolkit to come back to in the moment to cope with difficult situations.
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Today I'm introducing the concept of the Wheel of Motherhood as a means to prioritise yourself as a mother. This is a tool I often use for my clients and for myself too, to work out the areas of life that need to be prioritised to bring some balance in life.
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On this week's episode I'm talking to Sophie Messager, a doula and perinatal educator and healer, best known recently for her fantastic book 'Why Postnatal Recovery Matters'. In this episode we cover Sophie's 4 pillars of postnatal recovery and talk at great length about each one and why they're so important.
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Today on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm busting 8 common breastfeeding myths. These are the sort of things I hear so often and it breaks my heart how many mums are stopped in their track just because of old wives tales and outdated advise circulating from friends and family, and even sometimes from healthcare professionals!
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Why do we feel so exhausted as mums? It's a bit of a cliche that mums are tired and while for the most part we are simply expected to do way too much in a way that we never would for most of our history, there are lifestyle and diet factors that further affect our overall feeling of exhaustion.
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Have you written a birth plan? What about a breastfeeding plan? So often new parents spend a lot of time planning the nursery, researching prams and buying a bigger car but very few consider the nuts and bolts of how they will make breastfeeding work.
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In this week's episode on Raising Healthy Mothers, I'm discussing six key micronutrients I think are often problematic for mums in growing, birthing and feeding their children. When clients come to me with symptoms of fatigue, low motivation, poor sleep, low energy and difficulty losing weight, these are the topmost nutrients I have in mind.
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In today's episode I'm talking to Chloe Manlay, a fellow nutritional therapist who specialises in acne and skin health, helping women transform their skin from the inside out. I know skin is often a problematic area for mums after giving birth so I know this is going to be one of those really eye-opening episodes.
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In this week's episode on Raising Healthy Mothers, I'm talking about recovery in the first six months of motherhood. Whereas there's a lot of information on how to have a healthy pregnancy, and even how to recover and cope in the fourth trimester, I believe the healing and recovery continues well into the first 6 months, and even beyond.
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Today on Raising Healthy Mothers I'm diving a bit deeper into one of the main things that can derail your breastfeeding journey - before it has even started. Now that I've completed my training, it seems really obvious, but it was such a lightbulb moment for me when I learn about it on the Mindful Breastfeeding Supporter Course.
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Today I'm talking about the wonderful world of the breast microbiome - the role breastfeeding plays in populating the baby's gut, how the bacteria get there in the first place and how breastmilk ensures the baby's gut has the right bacteria.
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In today's episode I'm introducing you to the concept of mindful breastfeeding. I have recently completed my training as a mindful breastfeeding supporter and I'm really excited to begin offering antenatal breastfeeding courses soon.
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Today I'm addressing a question I'm often asked - 'What should I eat when I'm breastfeeding?' It's a really common questions pregnant and new mums ask me, not knowing that it's actually quite a complex answer.
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In today's episode I'm discussing how to optimise a plant-based diet in motherhood. Is it healthy to be a vegan during pregnancy and when breastfeeding? Is it healthy for children to be plant-based? What are the key nutrients that might be missing from a plant-based diet?
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Today I welcome Angela Rake of Zing Wellness to the podcast. Angela is a Pilates teacher specialising in women’s health with a particular interest in preparing for motherhood in pregnancy, postnatal recovery and pelvic floor healing.
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