The advantage of Preconception Health Care

 

It takes healthy parents to make a healthy baby and preconception health care for both parents is the ideal way to achieve this. The mother's egg takes approximately 100 days to mature before ovulation and the father's sperm need about 116 days to form. During this time, both are very susceptible to damage. A period of 4 months for preconception health care enables sperm and egg to develop in a toxin-free and nutrient-rich environment to enable optimum health of both. This provides the best possible conditions for the long-term health of the baby. 

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Supplements? But I eat well!

 

While a good diet is a sensible starting point for good nutrition, unfortunately on its own it is not enough to guarantee optimal nutritional status. Australian soil is low in many nutrients and traditional farming has further depleted the soil of minerals such as calcium, magnesium, zinc and selenium. Pesticide use increases the need for many nutrients such as vitamin C and zinc.

 

We are also constantly exposed to toxins, such as chemicals, heavy metals and radiation, which use up our antioxidant store, and reduce nutrients. These toxic substances, which can harm sperm, egg and the developing baby, can be gently removed from the body, during the preconception period, through the use of antioxidant nutrients and cleansing herbs.

 

Achieve hormonal balance with natural remedies

 

Nearly all women have problems with their fertility sometime. Either they have too much of it when they don't want it or too little when they do.

 

Male and female fertility has steadily declined over the last few decades basically due to our diet and life style changes. Air, water and food chemicals, electromagnetic radiation (eSmog) being largely responsible for this decline in man and woman's reproductive health.

 

Natural Fertility Management is the safest and most empowering method of overcoming fertility problems currently available and, in most cases, offers a chance of a healthy successful conception which is equal to or greater than, any other form of infertility treatment.

 

The orthodox medical treatment of infertility relies on drugs and surgery. With Natural Fertility Management the emphasis is on encouraging you into further involvement with the understanding of your reproductive functions, rather than an attempt to manipulate them.

 

With Natural Fertility Management your general health improves while you get to know the signs and rhythms of your fertility. As this happens your chances of conceiving raise month by month.

 

The Natural Fertility Management program teaches you to understand and cooperate with your fertility cycles, through observing body signs such as cervical mucus and basal body temperature, and combining this knowledge with your personal bio-rhythmic lunar cycle.

 

I am now very happy to be offering Natural Fertility Management in my practice, having completed the Natural Fertility Management counsellor's course with Francesca Naish.

 

How do Supplements benefit my baby?

 

During the first three months after conception, the mass of the embryo increases 20 million times. This is the time when cells differentiate, and organs are being formed. Sometimes nutrient deficiencies may be so great that the pregnancy cannot continue. In other cases, the deficiency is not so severe but may still be detrimental to the health of the unborn child. For example, this is the case in spina bifida, where levels of folic acid are insufficient for satisfactory closure of the neural tube and the spine covering does not fully develop.

 

Other, less obvious problems, such as allergies, asthma, behavior problems and infections (for example, middle ear and respiratory infection) are far less likely to occur in children when parents enter into conception with adequate nutrient status and low toxicity levels.

 

Your growing baby is rapidly developing new organs and body tissues and needs lots of good food and good nutrition to complete this growth and development in optimum health and vitality. The food you eat and the supplements you take before and during pregnancy act as a supply of nutrition for these developing organs and tissues.