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May 22, 2021

**Carnitine – A Conditionally Essential Nutrient in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum**

The body produces L-carnitine from the essential amino acid lysine. Healthy individuals, including strict vegetarians, can generally synthesize enough L-carnitine to prevent deficiency, but there are certain conditions like pregnancy that increase l-carnitine excretion and change an individual’s need.

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September 16, 2019

Nutrients-Food & Soil Health

A booming global population, high demand for food, and mass farming practices has changed our soil composition in a blink of an eye. And why eating 1 tomato may not longer cut it...

September 12, 2019

Gestational Diabetes-Effective Nutrition Interventions

Gestational Diabetes is on the rise worldwide. The etiology of gestational diabetes is multi-factorial, which provides many opportunities to improve health! Take a look how optimize your outcomes if this diagnosis presents.

August 14, 2019

GrowBaby Perinatal Nutrition Master's Course

The Nutrition Masters Course and MAPS Videos on Perinatal Management in the 21st Century takes a deep dive look into the importance of hormones, hormone balance, and metabolism in fertility, preconception, and conception; underscores the critical need for preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care for the mother, as well as preconception care for the father; discusses the importance of normal weight gain and implications for fetal health; and identifies the unique nutritional needs at each stage of pregnancy. After all, healthy parents=healthy baby=healthy world. Featuring Leslie Stone, MD and Emily Rydbom, CN, BCHN, CNP

July 21, 2019

Fertilization-An Immune Game?

Researchers looked into the relatively mysterious event of fertilization and found some pretty amazing things. Long story short? There is an immune game a-foot!

December 07, 2018

How Fish Can Decrease the Risk of Preterm Birth

Omega-3 Fatty Acid supplementation in pregnancy, decreases the risk of preterm birth, early preterm birth, and small for gestational age babies.

March 23, 2018

Tea and Theanine-Mood Support in a Cup

A cup of tea is not only part of a healthy day, but it can help mood, improve well-being, aid with sleep, provide a complexity of flavor, supports relaxation time, and helps increase levels of crucial neurotransmitters that are beneficial for you.

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February 04, 2018

Insomnia and Pregnancy

Insomnia is a risk factor for high blood pressure and pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, depression, preterm birth and unplanned caesarean sections. It is important to address ways to improve sleep during pregnancy.

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March 29, 2017

Eating, Feeding, and Cognitive Development

Factors such as hunger and satiety, social, familial, and biochemical influences all impact the way your child will relate to their food world. Piaget ultimately identified that creating knowledge and intelligence is an inherently active process--and this process applies to the way your child experiences their food, too.

February 23, 2017

Why Being Bare is So Much More Than Being Naked

There’s far more value to something than just appearance alone. Love is not found in the obvious, no, it is far grander than that. A deeper truth cannot be found than when are you are valued for the inexplicable, the transcendental.

Jessica Evans-Mon Amour Bare

February 05, 2017

A Lifestyle Guide: Handling Sleep As A New Parent

Age/Individual Guideline Parameters: Our suggested start time is not going to include an age, but rather a weight. The reason behind this? We have to ensure sufficient growth prior to asking a child to sleep through the night. A baby who weighs less than 18 lbs may still need nutriture and calories during the night. We suggest that moms who are breastfeeding and children who are over 6 months include GrowBaby’s recommended foods for better sleep.

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January 25, 2017

Lifestyle Guide to a Cold and Influenza Free Winter

We wish you a cold and influenza-free winter! Here are some immune-boosting lifestyle choices you can consider for you and the people you love.

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December 24, 2016

Managing Eczema with Dr. Leslie Stone

Skip the soap: Baths are a great way to decrease stress and relax for your child, but if they are prone to eczema, soap is really drying. Stick with warm water only and take baths as often as your child enjoys.

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December 08, 2016

The Breastmilk and Formula Transition

What's the best way to transition from breastfeeding to formula? How long should you keep your child on formula if they are also solid food feeding? How are you to know if your choice in formula is facilitating the best for your baby? and how do you transition from formula at 12 months?

December 02, 2016

Pregnancy and the Future of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease

The proliferation of global chronic disease can most readily be reversed in the preventative time period of pregnancy. There is never a more opportune time to address your lifetime health and the health of your baby than in the perinantal time period.

November 04, 2016

BPA Exposure and Fertility Health

Once in food or packaging, BPA is effective at transferring from one host to another. This is of great concern in the case of a mother and her fetus.

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October 22, 2016

Influence Your Baby's Palette In The Womb

The current of your health can change when you manage your stress; it is the sustainable way to deal with it. Did you know that the stress state you adopt while pregnant affects the flavor of your amniotic fluid?

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July 11, 2016

My 3-Year Old Postpartum Body

Do you know what I did for my son’s 3rd birthday? I got naked. Now, before you jump to scene: Naked Mom Streaks Through Kiddie Pool Full of Toddlers...I want to clarify. I got naked for myself.

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January 15, 2016

Wait, Guys Make the What?

The health of each of us, male or female, includes the ability to reproduce. Both the health of the sperm and eggs are involved in the dance for new life.

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September 30, 2015

Making Sense of SNPs

"Small genetic variations can have a big influence on your health — and affect your nutritional needs, too." - Julie Kendrick

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July 23, 2015

Cravings: A Short, but Sweet Guide

I often get asked, "Am I craving certain foods because the baby needs them?" Short answer? It depends. If the craving is a whole cheesecake then I think we can all safely say, "probably not." However, if the craving is fish or oranges, or beef, or yogurt, and it matches the development that is happening for baby, then we can say, yes! But the real question that I want to help answer is, how do you manage a balance?

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July 06, 2015

Tips for a Healthy Second Trimester

The beauty of pregnancy is that no matter what day or trimester it is, you will always discover another expectation that you can let go of. We think this lesson prepares us for motherhood. Hold on only to what you can control, what goes into your mouth multiple times a day.

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June 06, 2015

MTHFR for Preconception and Pregnancy Health: What You Need to Know

Why is it important to know my MTHFR genetic status preconception and for pregnancy? Your ability to methylate or activate B vitamins affects nearly all parts of your body. If you are genetically predisposed to MTHFR, then it can affect your ability to conceive and carry a healthy pregnancy.

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May 10, 2015

GrowBaby Feature, Asante Hospital Magazine

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May 02, 2015

Tips for a Healthy First Trimester

GrowBaby approaches pregnancy differently. Sure, we have guidelines to eating, guidelines that we know are proven to give you a healthier child and a healthier pregnancy, but we also carry along in our diaper bags, a healthy whopping dose of grace.

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April 23, 2015

How to Move to Lose the Postpartum Blues

Movement is a positive way to oxygenate your body and increase the production of endorphins, or feel good brain chemicals. And following birth, it’s an important part of your recovery.

March 25, 2015

What Your Skin is Trying to Tell You

In this article, 4 functional medicine physicians explain how skin can sometimes be the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

February 12, 2015

Spotlight on Vaccinations: A GrowBaby Summary

The science is clear—vaccines protect against the vaccinated disease occurrence.

February 02, 2015

Balancing Vaccinations

I am right smack dab in the middle of the opposing realities - to vaccinate or not vaccinate, and I do not feel it is all or none.

January 22, 2015

Detox and Breastfeeding

One of the most common questions I get from moms with newborns is--"Would it be ok to do a detox while breastfeeding?" The answer is never a short yes or no...

December 10, 2014

Make Some Endorphins

There is nothing better than a good cozy up to the one you love. The moment is right, and it's on! Are you ready? Is your body ready?

November 25, 2014

Phytonutrients For Pregnancy and For Life

The flavors that pass through your amniotic fluid into your child, is the first introduction that they have to the world of food.

November 21, 2014

Customized Nutritional Enhancement For Pregnant Women Appears to Lower Incidence of Certain Common Maternal and Neonatal Complications

We want to thank Global Advances in Health and Medicine for their incredible work.

November 20, 2014

5 Ways to Naturally Decrease Your Risk of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension

According to the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, 6-8% of all pregnancies include high blood pressure problems.

November 06, 2014

Autism Nutrition, Part 1: Folate, Methylation, and Decreasing the Risk of Autism in Your Child

Whether it is because we didn't know enough about it and now we do, or the rates are truly rising, the simple fact remains, autism is more prevalent today than it was even just two years ago.

October 30, 2014

Markie Braly Tells Her GrowBaby Story

Before she learned how to eat for her unique health needs, she struggled with her relationship with food, but then she discovered GrowBaby, and it "saved" her life.

October 20, 2014

Meeting Fertility Challenges With Nutrition

The moment is now. It's time to get pregnant, so you try, again, and again, and again, until you feel so stressed that the very thought of not ever becoming pregnant consumes you.

October 20, 2014

GrowBaby Food Guide For Your Reproductive Health

An easy to use list of foods that are going to change your health and impact your ability to conceive.

September 25, 2014

GrowBaby Transformation: Sara Ornelas

Another GrowBaby Transformation with Sara Ornelas, a mother of two who went through both high-risk pregnancies with GrowBaby.

September 20, 2014

Preconception Health: Exercise, Sleep, and Stress Management

Does it really make a difference for your reproductive health if you exercise, sleep well, and manage your stress? Yes.

September 08, 2014

GrowBaby Transformation: Shawna Smith

Listen to the amazing health transformation one mother had from her first pregnancy to her third.

September 05, 2014

Preconception Health: What to Include

Nutrition, stress and toxic exposure during preconception and pregnancy, can affect the health of your family for up to 4 generations.

September 03, 2014

Preconception Health: What to Avoid

Did you know that many women of indigenous cultures like the Kikuyu tribe, the Bantu people of Southeast Africa—the largest ethnic group in Kenya—traditionally begin a special diet six months prior to marriage to prepare for pregnancy?

September 03, 2014

The Why Behind GrowBaby with Leslie Stone, MD

Dr. Stone describes the clinical study that she conducted, the provocative results, and why she believes that we can do a better job at managing the health of mom and baby during pregnancy.

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