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Healthy As A Mother
Healthy as a Mother, the podcast for becoming and being a mother, with your cohosts Dr. Leah Gordon and Dr. Morgan MacDermott, two naturopathic doctors who get it. Each week we teach you how to be the healthiest mother you can be - from fertility and preconception, to pregnancy and birth prep, through postpartum and throughout motherhood - empowering you with the natural health guidance and education you’re not getting elsewhere, so you can confidently navigate the broken system at large. The real, the raw, the un-talked about.
Healthy As A Mother
#88: Gestational Diabetes Part 2 with Lily Nichols
This is the second part of our two-part series all about Gestational Diabetes with Lily Nichols RDN. In this episode, we do an overview of testing options and discuss some of the lesser-known nuances of normal pregnancy metabolism - getting into some fascinating details around low blood sugars, continuous glucose monitors, and nutritive ketosis in pregnancy. We then discuss the conventional dietary recommendations and how they are insufficient and outdated and discuss the method of blood sugar management that Lily recommends to her clients to achieve the best outcomes. Also discussed is how this diagnosis of gestational diabetes can really come to wreck birth plans, even when it may not be applicable anymore - and how one can manage that best with their provider. Here we go!
RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Learn more from Lily Nichols:
- Website - www.lilynicholsrdn.com
- Instagram - @lilynicholsrdn
- Lily's Books
- Lily's Courses
- Lily's article on Breakfast Mistakes
- Lily's article on CGM Experiment Part 1 & Part 2
- Healthy as a Mother Episode #87: Gestational Diabetes Part 1 with Lily Nichols
- Healthy As A Mother Episode #13: Baby Brain Support in Pregnancy with Ari Calhoun
- Evidence-Based Birth Episodes on Big Babies
Stay Connected With Us:
Healthy As A Mother: www.healthyasamother.com
Instagram: @healthyasamotherpodcast
Dr. Leah: www.womanhoodwellness.com
Instagram: @drleahgordon
Dr. Morgan: www.milkmedicine.com
Instagram: @morganmacdermott