Practitioner, do you long to fully grasp nutrition for fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum?
Introducing my two self-paced online courses: ✨Perinatal Nutrition Academy, and Perinatal Minerals Expert✨
For Perinatal Minerals Expert information and outline, click here.
Keep scrolling to read about Perinatal Nutrition Academy.
Become a
Certified Perinatal Nutrition Educator.
By becoming a Certified Perinatal Nutrition Educator, you will be equipped to educate your clients on how functional nutrition plays a crucial role in the perinatal time.
This added certification will give you the answers you know your clients need, because they are asking you questions about food regularly!
Are you like many other doulas who receive food-related questions from your clients regularly? Do you need evidence-based recipes in your doula toolbox, ready to go when asked to prep a meal?
Maybe your clients are asking you about food and supporting a healthy pregnancy, or breastfeeding, or postpartum recovery, but the training you received didn’t prepare you to be able to answer them. And to no fault on your doula training, that’s just not what it was for!
Perinatal Nutrition Academy is your practical guide to understand nutrition for conception, pregnancy, and postpartum!
You'll learn about things like the blood sugar regulatory system to help you understand why macro-balanced meals can be supportive of a healthy perinatal time. On top of that, you will learn what foods or herbs to educate on for supporting balanced blood sugar. If you work in-person with your clients you can have package add-on's for meal prep with the cooking skills you gain in the instructional videos and over 4 months of pre-curated menus for you to use with your clients!
I spent over $20k in nutrition and private chef training alone. Then there was the cost of all my doula certifications. I’m teaching you the secrets to mastering both at a fraction of the price so that you can better support your clients with nutrient-dense foods cooked like a pro.
Perinatal Nutrition Academy will educate you on the in’s and out’s of nutrition for perinatal health, but you will also receive practical cooking skills with educational videos on batch-cooking, chopping skills, various cooking methods, how to properly prepare various foods for the best nutrient-density and bioavailabilty of the food you prepare. You don’t have to feel unsure of yourself in the kitchen anymore. You can confidently offer menu options to your clients. You can even use the 4+ months of menus given to you in this course with your clients, so that all of the thinking is eliminated for you. You will get the grocery lists and recipes. Add that to the info on how to batch-cook and you will be able to make meal prep an add-on service that your clients can choose from! Or just incorporate the cost directly in your packages altogether!
Nutrition
Learn about a myriad of topics: review PubMed studies on the importance of real food for conception, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding. Learn how a plant-based diet compares to an omnivorous one. Learn about the physiological systems in nutrition as it relates to maternal/women's health. Special diets and considerations. Understand blood sugar regulation, fatty acid balance, mineral balance, hydration, gut health and much more. Plus get 4+ months worth of menus to use in your business for any client you may work with.
Cooking
Get ready to get your hands dirty. Learn how to chop or dice food. How do you roast vegetables? How do you prepare different kinds of protein? What is a sear or reverse sear? Learn about the smoke points of different oils and fats for the best nutrient cooking practices. Want to learn about different global cuisines/flavors? You’ll have that, too. Understand the palette and how to cook intuitively instead of being tied to a recipe. Learn how to batch-cook and meal prep, and benefit from 4 months worth of weekly meal plans that you can use with your clients.
Bonuses
Receive a masterclass on Online Business 101 in order to hit the ground running with your business. Learn about using social media, opt-in’s, the basics of marketing, onboarding new clients and client retention.
Course Outline
Module 1: Pillars
Lesson 1: Pillars & Proper Preparation
Lesson 2: Digestion
Lesson 2b: Probiotics
Lesson 3: Blood sugar regulation
Lesson 4: Fatty acid balance
Lesson 5: Mineral balance
Lesson 6: Hydration
Lesson 7: Perinatal Depletion
Module 2: Nutrition Applied
Lesson 8: Conception Nutrition
Lesson 9: Pregnancy Nutrition
Lesson 10: Vegetarian/Vegan Diets
Lesson 11: Special Diets
Module 3: Lifestyle Factors
Lesson 12: Stress
Lesson 13: Sleep
Lesson 14: Movement
Module 4: Your Sustainable Kitchen
Cooking as Self-Care
Cooking Basics
Batch-cooking
Knife Skills
Food Prep Tutorials
Bonuses:
Online Business 101
4 months of curated menus!
Meet Your Instructor:
Mama Wheel.
Dr. Nina-Marie Rueda is a Naturopathic Doctor who focuses on health in the perinatal time.
After having been trained as a doula by the midwife who is the Director at her local birth center, she went on to receive her postpartum doula training and lactation educator training from CAPPA.
Nina-Marie works with mothers to determine where the imbalances in digestive function, hormones, and through blood chemistry are occurring in order educate on individualized needs to regain optimal health, which can look like regained energy after long bouts of fatigue, ridding PMS symptoms once and for all, enjoying self-control instead of moments of outrage at her toddler, strength, and fat loss, among other things like getting rid of headaches and migraines. With her expertise in nutrition and perinatal health, mothers are able to be transformed into the women they want to be.
Paired with her training as a labor doula, postpartum doula, lactation educator, and private chef, Nina-Marie brings a well-rounded approach to care while working with mothers and supporting/educating other doulas to do the same.