Healthy Baby Secrets by Brittany Blockman, MD, MA, FAAP
Pregnancy is an exciting journey, and yet when I was pregnant, I felt lost-even as an integrative pediatrician. I had so many questions:
- How can I optimize my baby’s health and development before she is born?
- What are the best foods to eat and the most important supplements to take to enhance my baby’s health?
- How can I reduce the risk of pre-term labor? And so on…
I wanted someone to guide me through the latest science on how to optimize my baby’s health, brain, and body before she was born.
As an integrative pediatrician, I knew that researchers were beginning to understand how to optimize a baby’s health prenatally and in early life. However, when I was pregnant, I became acutely aware that parents are unable to access this information, and if they are, it’s often not early enough in their child’s life to make a difference. This is partly because our health system is not set up to work with pediatricians before children are born-and in particular, a pediatrician who is knowledgeable about integrative prenatal pediatric care.
I want to change all of this through a new medical service I am launching. MotherWit Integrative Medicine’s Healthy Baby Secrets program
Jane Austin is an internationally recognized Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher and Teacher trainer empowering women and pregnant people to trust their bodies as they transition into parenthood and beyond.
