Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy
Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy offers an overview of the latest research findings and international recommendations on a variety of nutrition-related aspects and outcomes of pregnancy. Ensuring a healthy nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during pregnancy is one of the best ways to help support the healthy growth and development of the unborn child. We will look at how a healthy diet and lifestyle should ideally be achieved prior to conception and provide recommendations for pre-conception counselling of women.We will also look at the nutritient recommendations for a healthy pregnancy to ensure optimal maternal and fetal outcomes as well as focus on the most common nutrition-related pregnancy complications; obesity and gestational diabetes.
The learner will have the opportunity to delve into the cutting-edge world of epigenetic and metabolomic research and appreciate the enormous role that these programming effects have in long-term health and disease outcomes.
Finally, we offer real life, everyday situations and questions from pregnant women to aid healthcare professionals in the nutrition-based counselling of pregnant women and their families.
In addition to the English original, subtitles in Portugese language are available now!
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Syllabus
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Unit 1 - A Healthy Pregnancy Starts Before Conception
Week 2
Unit 2 - Nutrition and Lifestyle for a Healthy Pregnancy
Week 3
Unit 3 - Nutrition-Related Pregnancy Outcomes
Week 4
Unit 4 - Practical Advice for a Healthy Pregnancy
FAQ
When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?
Access to lectures and assignments depends on your type of enrollment. If you take a course in audit mode, you will be able to see most course materials for free. To access graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience, during or after your audit. If you don't see the audit option:
What will I get if I purchase the Certificate?
When you purchase a Certificate you get access to all course materials, including graded assignments. Upon completing the course, your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.
Is financial aid available?
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
How do I learn more about nutrition in pregnancy?
To find out more about nutrition and pregnancy as well as gain German, European and American accreditation points take a look at the Early Nutrition eAcademy http://www.early-nutrition.org/enea .
You will find latest research findings and international recommendations on nutrition and lifestyle in pregnancy, as well as other interesting core modules on topics in the area of early nutrition: Breastfeeding, Infant Formula Feeding and Complementary feeding as well as a number of focus modules for more in-depth knowledge.
Reviews
I would like to thank all the mentors for making this course. I have learned so much from all of you and I cannot wait to be able to use this course in applying it in my clinical practice.
These type of course is excellent for the learning students and also for those parents who are planning to have a baby.
This will help them to know about the health and care during pregnancy.
In general, the course is very explainatory and rich, making the sources of the information available for further information and investigation, which is always an advantage.
Helped me understand the importance of good nutrition during pregnancy. This course helped me build my knowledge of nutrition and how we must bring about lifestyle changes for a healthy pregnancy.
