Can a dietitian and nutritionist help with fertility?
Yes, a registered dietitian and nutritionist can help with fertility by outlining which nutrients you should eat and which you should reduce or avoid to ensure a healthy pregnancy.
How can a fertility nutritionist and dietitian help?
A registered dietitian and nutritionist for fertility support can help women in a number of ways:
- A fertility dietitian can first assess your current diet and outline areas of opportunity or improvement, with fertility nutrition in mind.
- Provide basic education around the connection of diet (or nutrition) and fertility, if desired.
- Give advice pertaining to foods and nutrients that can improve fertility (egg and sperm quality), as well as foods linked to poor fertility outcomes.
- Outline ways to help improve your fertility with diet, with considerations around your medical condition(s).
- Suggest prenatal nutrition supplements tailored to you.
- Provide nutritional support for existing nutrition deficiencies.
- Provide ongoing fertility nutrition support to prepare for pregnancy and help enhance fertility, by maintaining a healthy weight.
- Assist with specific weight management goals by working with a dietitian and nutritionist for weight loss.
- Work with your partner to improve their preconception health.
- Provide food safety advice prenatally and in early pregnancy.
- Provide advice on ensuring adequate hydration, while managing caffeine and alcohol intake.
- Prepare a personalized fertility nutrition meal plan based on your food preferences, lifestyle, budget, cultural and religious needs, and more.
- Provide resources and recipes.
- Conduct check-in sessions to monitor progress and make tweaks to the fertility meal plan, if needed or desired.
- Seek the counsel of a pediatric dietitian and nutritionist to prepare for motherhood.
- Work with a fitness and sports dietitian to align your nutrition plan with physical activity, if desired by active expectant mothers.
- And more.
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In addition to working with a fertility dietitian and nutritionist, you can seek counsel with our practitioners to help address a variety of other health and nutrition concerns.
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Where to Find Our Dietitian and Nutritionist for Fertility Support
Our dietitians and nutritionists who focus on nutritional support to optimize fertility service clients in-person in the following provinces: Ontario, Nova Scotia and BC.
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You can also book an appointment for fertility nutrition support with our virtual nutritionists.
We also provide nutritional counselling virtually to the residents of other provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, MB, New Brunswick, NL, PEI, Quebec and the territories.
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