#Pregnancy makes its demands on your body. One of those demands is #minerals. Every system in the body keeps itself running smoothly through the utilization of minerals. So, growing a baby and building the hormones necessary for the hard work of labor and breastfeeding is dependent upon the food you eat and the minerals that come into your body. Here is an amazing recipe to seriously boost the necessary minerals...and it tastes delish! Seaweed Nut Crunch 1/3c Coconut Oil 1/2c

This article, written in 2015, can be found at: https://avivaromm.com/group-b-strep-gbs-in-pregnancy-whats-a-mom-to-do/ It’s practically impossible to pick up a newspaper or magazine these days without coming across an article on the importance of a healthy microbiome for our overall health. If you’ve been educating yourself about the microbiome, you’ve probably learned that antibiotics are one of the things that can have a negative impact on it. You may have also read that

I'm not kidding. Fat is so important in your diet when you are pregnant, that I am going to devote this entire blog to it...and include some recipes too! For years, health guidelines have advised people to eat a low fat diet...and it has not helped the health of this country one bit. As a matter of fact, it has made people even more unhealthy. I think many of our chronic medical conditions and diseases could be helped by actually increasing the amount of fat in your diet. Whe

GBS is a bacteria that is commonly found in our gut. In the last decade it has been discovered that many of the sick babies in the NICU are sick from a GBS infection. It has become a common medical practice to test every pregnant woman for GBS at the end of pregnancy and if found, treat it with prophylactic antibiotics. That may sound all well and good to many western practitioners concerned about keeping babies healthy, however, I believe the presence of GBS in the vagina

Pregnancy is such a wonderful time to take a look at the food you eat. Knowing food feeds your baby helps increase the awareness of each bite you put into your mouth. Food is an essential part of your pregnancy. The food you eat builds your baby, it builds the placenta and it gives you strength and stamina for labor and the early days of parenthood. Take advantage of this new awareness and tweak your food lifestyle. 1. Eat foods close to their source. The closer a food is t