The Pregnancy Pod Curriculum

Nutrition for Pregnancy 101 

• Essential nutrients for you and your growing babe

• Foods to eat daily and weekly

• Importance of hydration and hydration strategies

• What foods to limit and/or avoid 

• Navigating prenatal supplements

Recorded video + resources provided at enrollment​

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Food Strategies, Herbal Remedies, and Lifestyle Medicine for Pregnancy Part 1 

• Nutritive herbs and daily infusions

• Nausea and vomiting 

• Food cravings

• Heartburn

• Constipation

• Fatigue

• Creating everyday nourishment rituals

Recorded video + resources provided at enrollment​

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Intro to Intuitive Eating and Body Talk

•  Examining our food beliefs, customs, and traditions

• Understanding body changes during pregnancy

• Tuning the inner ear of intuition

• Embodiment practices for intuitive eating

14th week of pregnancy

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Culinary Immersion Workshop – Part 1

• Strategies for stocking your pregnancy pantry

• Benefits of batch cooking

• Recipes for pregnancy and beyond

16th week of pregnancy

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Food Strategies, Herbal Remedies, and Lifestyle Medicine for Pregnancy – Part 2

• Sleep and insomnia

• Iron deficiency anemia

• Back pain, headaches, and other physical discomforts

• Depression and anxiety

• Gestational diabetes

18th week of pregnancy

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Culinary Immersion Workshop – Part 2

• Recipes for pregnancy and beyond

20th week of pregnancy

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Childbirth Education 1

• Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and childbirth 

  • Cervical dilation

  • Effacement and station

  • Optimal fetal positioning

  • Optimal parent positioning

  • Common discomforts in pregnancy 

• Creating a birth “plan” and important questions to ask your provider 

• Choosing your support team 

22nd week of pregnancy

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Food Strategies, Herbal Remedies, and Lifestyle Medicine for Labor 

• Group B Strep

• What to eat and drink during labor

• Broths, teas, and electrolyte drinks

• Nutrition for the first 40 days postpartum

• Meal trains, meal prep, takeout? Planning for your postpartum meals. 

24th week of pregnancy

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Childbirth Education 2

• Physiological birth

  • Pre-labor

  • Rupture of membranes

  • Stages and phases of labor (plus emotional/physical signs)

  • When to head to place of birth

• How to measure contractions 

• Comfort techniques and pain management

  • Expansion, touch, positioning, movement, water, nourishment and so much more

  • Epidural and nitrous oxide 

  • Partners role 

26th week of pregnancy

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Food Strategies, Herbal Remedies, and Lifestyle Medicine for Postpartum 

• Postpartum traditions from around the globe

• Postpartum healing

• Breastfeeding and common lactation concerns

• Mental health and postpartum depression

• Planning for postpartum nourishment

28th week of pregnancy

 

Childbirth Education 3

• How to positively navigate medically managed births

  • Inductions

  • Cesarean birth

  • High risk pregnancy 

• Advocating for yourself or your partner

• What to pack for the hospital/birthing center

• Infant feeding basics 

  • First latch

  • Lactogenesis 1-3

  • Common issue, tips, and getting help

  • Formula, donated milk, combo feeding, et

• Postpartum healing

  • Postpartum body immediately after birth and beyond

  • Postpartum anxiety/depression

  • Postpartum nourishment and care

30th week of pregnancy

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Culinary Immersion Workshop – Part 3/Partner Edition

• Recipes for partners to master for postpartum and beyond

32nd week of pregnancy

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Postpartum Support Group 1

• Birth stories

• Q+A

2nd week postpartum

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Postpartum Support Group 2

• Birth stories

• Q+A

6th week postpartum

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