What is the Prenatal Dietary Package?
The Prenatal Dietary Package enables women to optimally nourish themselves and their unborn babies throughout the three trimesters of pregnancy by providing three Meal Plan variations: one for each trimester. Even if you are already approaching your second trimester, the first trimester Meal Plan is designed as the essential clinical foundation for the subsequent stages of your pregnancy.
Key Features of the Prenatal Dietary Package
The key features of the Prenatal Dietary Package are:
What Services Are Included in the Prenatal Dietary Package?
The Prenatal Dietary Package follows a 3-stage Integrated Nutritional Framework.
2. DESIGN: Customized 3-trimester Meal Plan
3. TEACH: In-depth Nutrition Education Session
What is the Structure of Services in the Prenatal Dietary Package?
The Prenatal Dietary Package is broken down into three separate sequential services that (1) assess your needs, (2) design your 3-trimester meal plans, and (3) teach them to you and provide you with detailed teaching handouts
1. In-depth Clinical Assessment:
ASSESS: The first service in the package is an in-depth clinical assessment, which is broken into two parts:
a. The first part of the assessment includes a review of your personal and family medical history and recent laboratory results to help evaluate your nutritional status and develop individualized recommendations. I’ll also clarify your current medications and nutritional supplements and obtain your waist and hip measurements (10 minutes).
b. The second part of the assessment is a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review, where I will collect detailed information, including what you like to eat and when, food likes and dislikes, religious, cultural, or ethical dietary restrictions, and other factors that impact your health and weight, such as sleep habits and activity level (50 minutes).
2. Design of Individual Meal Plans:
DESIGN: The second service in the package is the design of three versions of your individual Meal Plan, one for each trimester of your pregnancy. The first trimester Meal Plan forms the basis for the other two and takes into account all the information collected during the assessment, medications you may be taking, risk factors you may have, lab test results, food preferences, and food restrictions, if any.
Your Meal Plan is not a rigid menu. It’s a personalized framework to guide your food choices while allowing flexibility and variety.
The turnaround time for completing your Meal Plan will be approximately 2 weeks from the time I receive any requested or missing information, such as any nutrition labels or pending lab test results.
3. Nutrition Education Session:
TEACH: The third service in the package is the Nutrition Education Session, which begins with you receiving your Meal Plan, as well as the detailed, multi-page Meal Plan Summary handout that will serve as a reference as you implement your Meal Plan.
- Visit begins with a review of risk factors, weight, waist circumference, or out-of-range lab test results
- Step-by-step teaching of your Meal Plan, including food categories, serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions within each food category at each meal.
- Specific dietary and lifestyle recommendations to help you achieve the goals that you set.
How Much Does the Prenatal Dietary Package Cost?
The cost of the Prenatal Dietary Package is $450 (GST exempt), and to make submitting to extended benefits easy, receipts are broken down into the three individual services:
- Comprehensive Clinical Assessment ($150)
- Design of Individual Meal Plans for all 3 trimesters ($150)
- In-depth Nutritional Education Session teaching for all 3 trimesters ($150)
Questions About Booking, Billing, or Extended Benefits?
On our FAQ page, you’ll find answers to questions about booking, billing and payment options, appointment confirmations, extended benefits claims, and much more. If you have any questions that are not answered there, you can contact us through the form at the bottom of the FAQ page.
How to Get Started?
What Happens Once I’m Booked?
Once your assessment visit is booked, your care will follow three stages.
ASSESS: Before your appointment, we’ll send you a link to the Personal and Family Medical History Form. Please return it at least 24 hours before your appointment so I’ll have time to review your information and prepare for our session. If you prefer, I can email you a password-protected form to complete manually. We’ll then meet for your comprehensive dietary and lifestyle assessment.
DESIGN: Following your assessment, I’ll develop your 3 individualized Meal Plans (one for each trimester) and supporting resources.
TEACH: We’ll then meet for your Nutrition Education Session, where we’ll review your 3 Meal Plans together and discuss how to put them into practice.
How Do I Get Started with the Prenatal Dietary Package?
The first step is to visit our Book an Appointment tab by clicking the button below. There you will have the choice to either complete the Intake and Service Option Form online and send it to us directly from our web page, or to download the form, complete it on your computer, and email it back to us.
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Questions and Answers
Q: I am 8 weeks pregnant and want to get a Meal Plan for the rest of my pregnancy. Can I just get a package for the second and third trimester?
A: Dietary changes for the second and third trimester are built on what someone should be eating in their first trimester, so that first trimester Meal Plan needs to be designed anyway. The amount of work designing the 3 Meal Plans is the same, and so is the amount of teaching time.
Q: My partner and I are trying to conceive, and I am wondering if it’s too early to start thinking about getting a Prenatal Meal Plan before I get pregnant.
A: Since the first trimester Meal Plan is based on your current dietary needs, you certainly can do this if you want!
Q: I’ve been trying to lose weight, and I just found out I am pregnant. Can my Prenatal Meal Plans be designed so I can adequately nourish my baby, but don’t gain a ton of weight?
A: Yes, I can absolutely design your Prenatal Meal Plan with that in mind!
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