NUTRITION IN PREGNANCY
5 Talks
As time progresses more is being understood about the importance of healthy nutrition in pregnancy and beyond, both for the pregnant woman and the baby. The talks in this set present the importance of midwives providing the best healthy living advice during pregnancy, particularly around healthy eating. A session discusses how a specialised clinic can assist women with hyperemesis gravidarum and improve nutrition.
NB: Knowledge of nutrition has changed over time. Please check current guidance for foods, weaning and micronutrients as these change with new evidence
Early life nutrition: The importance of nutrition: before, during and after pregnancy
2016 | 24 mins | Nutrition in pregnancy
Annette Briley from Kings Health Partners presents the importance of the first 1000 days for babies and why good nutrition is significant is explained. How poor nutrition has long term implications for well-being in the future is discussed. Preconception health is mentioned as well as the influence of parental BMI on health and outcome for birth. Annette points to addressing BMI prior to conception and developing a healthy lifestyle. Methods of infant feeding are also explored along with postnatal nutrition and weaning.
Annette Briley, Consultant Midwife, Research (PhD), Kings Health Partners
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Improving dietary intake through knowledge and behaviour change
2018 | 20 mins | Nutrition in pregnancy
N.B. Please be aware the term ‘cretinism’ is used which is obsolete and replaced by Congenital iodine Deficiency syndrome (CIDS).
In this talk nutritionist Aliya Porter points out midwives should give expert advice and recognises lots of barriers to healthy eating, exercise. She presents the data for healthy requirements for various foods and the appropriate intake and shares potential complications due to poor diet. Aliya states that health advice should be given holistically to everyone and presents the information that should be given particularly
Aliya Porter, Nutritionist
Addressing nutrition in routine antenatal practice
2020 | 17 mins | Nutrition in pregnancy
Shauna Callaghan, research midwife, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, explains the study ‘Provisional findings of midwives’ and obstetricians’ confidence, knowledge and practice, and a pilot of the FIGO Nutrition checklist’. She shares the importance of health and wellbeing, particularly for pregnant women across Ireland. The talk focusses on nutrition and points to the long-term impact of this during pregnancy. Shauna shares how her research has impact and introduces the FIGO nutrition checklist for assessing dietary habits along with results of piloting it in the antenatal period. Healthcarers experiences are presented and she shares preliminary results for her PhD study on healthcarers advice on nutrition and exercise.
Shauna Callaghan, Research Midwife, National Maternity Hospital Dublin
Role of the midwife in developing health lives
2021 | 25 mins | Nutrition in pregnancy
The talk begins with referral to the David Barker Hertfordshire study on birth records and the impact on health later life. Kathy Whyte, founder of Nurture Mum, points to the long-term effects of good health during pregnancy. Kathy discusses the importance of preconception discussions around health for both parents. She highlights appropriate nutrition and supplementation in pregnancy, lifestyle factors and breastfeeding.
Kathy Whyte, Nutritionist and former Midwife; Founder, Nurture Mum
Protocol for the evaluation of a new hydration clinic for women with Hyperemesis Gravidarum
2022 | 21 mins | Nutrition in pregnancy
In this talks Helen McHale, Clinical midwife manager & Melanie Bennett, Midwife, National hospital, Dublin, describe the innovation of a specialist clinic for women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). The condition is explained with the effects on women and babies, identified through a qualitative survey. Following the study a multidisciplinary clinic for women with HG was set up to support them. The challenges of setting up is shared and information of how the clinic is run and the treatments used. The use of urine Specific Gravity as a measure is explained. Mental wellbeing support is offered along with continuity of care with a known midwife. The evaluation of the clinic is introduced along with plans for the future.
Helen McHale, Clinical Midwife Manager, National Maternity Hospital
Melanie Bennett, Midwife, National Maternity Hospital
