At Maternal by Sentido, we are dedicated to supporting every maternal journey, which is why we offer maternal nutrition consulting. Working with one of Maternal by Sentido’s Registered Dietitians can make all the difference for a healthy pregnancy. Ensuring that you and your baby receive all the necessary vitamins and nutrients is our top priority.  

Maternal Nutrition Consulting

Our Individualized Virtual Nutrition Consulting

Our Maternal Nutrition Consulting services are 1-on-1 with our Registered Dietitians through our convenient telehealth platform. Our services are completely tailored to your unique needs, offering you the personalized, heartfelt support you deserve.  

Maternal by Sentido’s expert dietitians' goal is to get to know you and your unique needs and sessions will be personally tailored to you. This includes a meal plan, supplement guide, nutrient goals, vitamin recommendations, exercise suggestions, and more. 

Whether you're a first-time mom or an experienced momma, you can receive professional support to ensure you, and your baby are supported during any period of your maternal health journey.  

Maternal Nutrition Consulting

Working with one of Maternal by Sentido’s Registered Dietitians can make all the difference for a healthy pregnancy. Ensuring that you and your baby receive all the necessary vitmains and nutrients is of our top priority.

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All Moms Can Benefit from Nutrition Consulting

Regardless of your current nutritional status, you may benefit from a maternal nutrition consulting visit. Whether you are trying to conceive, currently pregnant, or postpartum, each phase of your motherhood journey requires different nutritional needs.

Supporting Healthy Weight Gain: Gaining the right amount of weight during pregnancy is important for both the mother’s and baby’s health.

Breastfeeding Support: A nutrition consultant can provide guidance on maintaining a balanced diet to promote milk output and nutritional quality. 

Managing Pregnancy Symptoms: Our Registered Dietitians can offer strategies to manage common pregnancy symptoms like nausea, heartburn, and constipation through diet adjustments. 

Optimizing Health for Baby: During pregnancy, certain nutrients are crucial for fetal development, such as folic acid, iron, calcium, and DHA. Maternal nutrition consulting can help ensure that your diet meets these needs. 

Postpartum Recovery: After childbirth, the body needs to recover and rebuild. Proper nutrition supports this process, helping with energy levels, tissue repair, and overall well-being.

Building Healthy Habits: Establishing healthy eating habits during pregnancy and the postpartum period can set a foundation for long-term health for you and your baby.

Preventing and Managing Postpartum Conditions: Postpartum moms might face issues like anemia or diabetes. Nutrition consultants can provide tailored advice to manage or prevent these conditions through diet. 

Addressing Food Cravings and Aversion: Pregnancy can bring about unusual food cravings or aversions. A nutrition consultant can help manage these changes and ensure that your diet remains balanced and nutritious. 

Nutrition Consulting throughout your Maternal Health Journey

  • Consultations will address any nutritional concerns or needs you may have while trying to conceive.  

    Explore prenatal vitamins appropriate for your needs.  

  • A consultant will offer advice for common pregnancy symptoms, like morning sickness, so that nutrient needs are still being met.

    Consultants can recommend exercise best practices to support your body.

  • Consultants will track the progress of your evolving nutritional needs and how to manage emerging symptoms.  

    Building Balanced Meals: Consultants will create a meal plan that will reach nutritional needs required for your second trimester.  

  • Ongoing Support: Consultant will answer questions and provide support for hard to manage symptoms, to medical advice for any conditional diagnosis that can be maintained through nutrition.  

    Habit Formation: Creating healthy habits to help ease the upcoming postpartum period.  

  • Guidelines for meeting the nutrient requirements to promote healing, keep energy levels high, and regain strength to support your baby.  

    Meal planning ideas and light exercise practices, like strengthening exercises for your pelvic floor.  

  • Nutritional needs will continue to be high for a woman choosing to breastfeed. A nutrition consultant can provide guidance on maintaining a balanced diet to promote milk production and nutritional quality. 

    There are important nutrients your baby needs to support growth and development that can be transferred via breast milk. Consultants will give recommendations on how to meet those needs.

Maternal Nutrition Consulting FAQs

  • Motherhood can be confusing and filled with new challenges. Maternal by Sentido is here to help with our nutrition-based approach to maternal health. Maternal nutrition consulting can help aid in uncomfortable pregnancy symptoms, help reduce your risk of pregnancy and childbirth related complications and help manage the overwhelming amount of information about pregnancy and deliver medically backed advice tailored to you.  

  • Nutrition affects the health outcomes of your infant, your postpartum healing, and milk production. Our RD will tailor maternal nutrition consulting sessions to your needs to best support you and your baby. 

  • There are reasons to begin maternal nutrition consulting at any and all periods of your maternal health journey.  

    1. Before becoming pregnant: To ensure all nutrient needs are being met to prepare your body to carry a baby.  

    1. During pregnancy: There are nutrient needs that need to be met to help support your baby and prevent any medical conditions that may arise from poor nutrition during pregnancy. 

    1. Concerns About uncomfortable pregnancy symptoms: Pregnancy symptoms can be hard to manage, and a consultant can provide medical advice on how to manage symptoms through a nutritional approach.  

    1. Postpartum: Nutrition is a key factor in healing your body and your consultant can recommend support for your unique needs.  

    1. Meal Planning: If you are struggling to create balanced meals, your consultant will be your ultimate guide, showing you how to use food to nutritionally support your body.  

    1. Exercise Best Practices: Exercise best practices evolve throughout your maternal health journey, each period requiring different needs. Your consultant will guide you through each stage of your journey.  

Importance of Nutrition during Pregnancy

Did you know most women in the United States do not meet the recommendations for healthful nutrition and weight before and during pregnancy? When women do not meet recommended nutrition and weight guidelines before and during pregnancy, it can lead to several negative outcomes for both the mother and the baby. Protect yourself and your baby by providing your body with the vitamins and nutrients necessary to support a healthy pregnancy.  

Read more about the benefits of nutrition on our blog.