The Nourished Mumma’s Shauna Spencer is a Sunshine Coast Postnatal & Breastfeeding Nutritionist, Perinatal & Paediatric Dietitian. She is passionate about helping mummas conceive, grow and raise healthy families. Shauna can help you to meet your individual nutrition needs with a tailored postnatal & breastfeeding nutrition plan. Shauna assist’s mummas with pregnancy diets, postnatal diets, breastfeeding diets and children’s nutrition, with a particular emphasis on baby and toddler nutrition.
To book an appointment Call today 0433130252 or send an online enquiry
Becoming a new mum is an exciting time, but it can be a challenging time for a lot of new mums. The new demands, adjusting to a new way of life and the sleep deprivation can leave little time to think about your nutrition and breastfeeding diet or prepare healthy meals. Getting your breastfeeding nutrition right during this time is especially important for a breastfeeding mumma. What you eat during this period can affect the quality, nutritional content and flavour of your breastmilk.
Sunshine Coast Postnatal & Breastfeeding Nutritionist & Dietitian can help with:
The postnatal diet plays an important role in restoring your nutrition levels after pregnancy, helping with your postnatal recovery and your energy levels. Postnatal nutrition can also affect the quality of your breastmilk. A postnatal and breastfeeding dietitian can help you with:
- How to increase breastmilk supply
- Best breastfeeding foods to produce high quality breastmilk
- Identification of breastfeeding foods to avoid if bubs is displaying food related symptoms
- Identification and management of food allergies, intolerances, chemical sensitivities in mums and breastfed bubs
- Prevention or correction of nutritional deficiencies
- Improve energy levels
- Postnatal healing and recovery
- Postnatal weight loss/weight gain
- Management of celiac disease
- Body image concerns after pregnancy
- Eating disorders
To book an appointment Call today 0433130252 or send an online enquiry
Both the World Health Organisation and The Australian Breastfeeding Association recommend exclusive breastfeeding until around 6 months of age but not before 4 months.
Benefits of Breastfeeding for your baby
Breastmilk contains:
- Breastmilk provides all the nutrients your baby needs for the first 6 months of life.
- Breastmilk contains antibodies that protect your baby against infections and diseases.
- Studies have shown that exclusive breastfeeding can help protect infants against a range of infections including: Diarrhoea, respiratory tract infections, ear infections, urinary tract infections, sudden infant death syndrome
- There is some evidence that shows that breastfeeding is related to a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, blood pressure and lower cholesterol levels later in life.
- Exclusively breastfed infants have a reduced risk of developing eczema in young infants that have a family history of allergy and type 1 diabetes
- Breastmilk has over 700 different bacteria, this bacteria can help to diverse the infants gut microbiome
- Breastmilk contains both pre and probiotics – to help feed the good bacteria in your baby’s gut
Benefits of Breastfeeding for the mother
- Breastfeeding has been shown to reduce the risk of breast and ovarian cancer
- Mummas that had Gestational Diabetes throughout their pregnancy have a reduced risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes if they breastfeed
- Mummas that exclusively breastfeed until 6 months and continue to breastfeed until at least 12 months and beyond have lower postpartum weight retention.
Book an appointment with a postnatal & breastfeeding nutritionist on the Sunshine Coast
The Nourished Mumma’s Shauna Spencer is a Sunshine Coast Postnatal & Breastfeeding Nutritionist, Perinatal & Paediatric Dietitian. She is passionate about helping mummas conceive, grow and raise healthy families. Shauna can help you to meet your individual nutrition needs with a tailored postnatal & breastfeeding nutrition plan. Shauna assist’s mummas with pregnancy diets, postnatal diets, breastfeeding diets and children’s nutrition, with a particular emphasis on baby and toddler nutrition.
Want to make sure you are optimising your postnatal & breastfeeding diet? Book an appointment with the postnatal & breastfeeding nutritionist on the Sunshine Coast. *Face-to-face and Telehealth appointments available * Approved Medicare Plans accepted
To book an appointment Call today 0433130252 or send an online enquiry
