POSTPARTUM
After the birth there is so much out there to take care of baby and so little to take care of mum. Growing and birthing a baby is nutritionally demanding and if you choose to breastfeed for months or even years after delivering your baby, the demand continues. The seed clinic is here to help you identify the self care strategies and nourishing foods that you can feasibly introduce to help keep you feeling a bit more like you.
Mothers would tell you it takes a year or more for their bodies to recover after birth and we now have studies to back this up. Adequate nutrition following pregnancy helps restore hormonal balance, replenish nutrient reserves, enhance physical recovery and energy levels, and if you’re breastfeeding, can support the production of quality breast milk.
As you transition to parenthood, you become the giver, the taker carer, contributing so much of your time in one way or another. Fueling up and introducing practices to support your recovery and take care of yourself can prevent you from starting to feel really depleted.
A consultation with the seed clinic will leave you feeling informed about what foods, drinks, supplements, rituals and practices you can introduce to give yourself more energy, replenish nutrient stores and support breast milk production. It’s about helping you finding practical ways to give back to you, so you feel stronger and ready to embrace the transition.
60-minute video consultation with Ella to review your current eating & lifestyle behaviors
Supporting nutrition guides with more information and tools
Personal action plan
Follow up consultations are available as needed and once a follow-up has been booked, on-demand support will be available to you via Whatsapp between appointments.
What’s included:
the seed clinic approach:
Ella will review your nutrition & lifestyle behaviours to consider nutritionally supportive foods and supplements that will help the body heal and restore after birth and support breastfeeding if this is something you have chosen to do. All advice is centered around non-restrictive eating principles where you will find out how to incorporate more nourishing foods versus cutting out food groups (sugar, dairy, etc). Amidst all of the sleepless nights, the things you make time for have to nourish you. The seed clinic becomes part of your village to help you feel supported and not isolated, enabling you to carve out a little time for you and support your overall sense of wellbeing.
Take back some of the control when often many factors can feel so out of your control
Learn how to support nutrient reserves, breastfeeding & milk quality
Discover self care strategies that keep you feeling like you & fit into your day
A listening ear to bring some light, hope and support wherever you are in your journey
MEET ELLA
Ella Pomfret is a Registered Dietitian, perinatal nutritionist & the creator of the seed clinic. She is a trusted expert in fertility and pre and postnatal nutrition and passionate about helping women use food, supplements and self care to positively influence their path to parenthood. She offers unhurried time and reliable advice ensuring those starting a family feel knowledgeable about nutrition, in control and confident.
Areas of postpartum covered include:
Hormone balance & energy levels
Postpartum depletion
Wound healing after c-sections & perineal tears
Nutrition support for breastfeeding
Eating well for your new body
Nutrition support for a healthy gut, skin & mind
Preparing your body for another pregnancy
Postpartum fertility nutrition
Post gestational diabetes
the seed clinic helps women harness the power of nutrition for fertility, pregnancy & postpartum, thereby supporting them to get pregnant and have healthier outcomes for them and their babies.
There is a wealth of reliable evidence from scientific research that shows nutrition can positively influence pre and postnatal health. The first 1,000 days are a critical period of child development, referring to the time from preconception through to around two years of age. Nutrition has a major role to play in brain development, genetic programming and improving long term health for the mother and her baby but advice about how food, supplements and self care can be used as a tool is not reaching the women who need it. The seed clinic is on a mission to close this gap.