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01/01/21
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What foods and supplements help improve fertility for those trying to conceive naturally and for those undergoing fertility treatment. We talked with Dr. Jorge E. Chavarro, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chavarro’s research is focused on understanding how nutrition and lifestyle impact human reproduction. He is the Principal Investigator of the Nurses’ Health Study 3 – an ongoing prospective cohort of young professional women started in 2010 designed to investigate the role of lifestyle and biologic factors on women’s health – and leads the nutritional component of the EARTH Study, an ongoing prospective cohort of couples undergoing infertility treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
In this episode, we cover:
How Does Nutrition Impact Fertility
- We know that women are born with all the eggs they are ever going to have so how does nutrition impact female fertility and egg quality?
- How does nutrition impact male fertility?
- How does weight and BMI affect fertility?
- We know that the microbiome in our reproductive tract is important to fertility. Does what we eat impact this microbiome?
What Foods and Diet are Best for Enhancing Fertility
- What foods improve natural fertility or the fertility of those in fertility treatment?
- What is the importance of protein? What type of protein is best
- Role of carbohydrates in fertility. Low carb? Complex vs simple carbs?
- Caffeine
- Soy products
What Supplements are Effective at Improving Fertility
- What supplements should you take if you are trying to conceive with or without fertility treatment?
- Prenatal vitamin
- Micronutrient supplementation
- Folates
- CoQ 10
- Vitamin B12
- DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone)
- Vitamin D
- Fish Oil
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Healing After Abuse and Neglect
December 24, 2020
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Children adopted from foster care or from abroad have often experienced abuse, neglect, or trauma. These children require a different form of parenting. This is a re-air of an older interview we did with the late Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family, and the founder and Director of the TCU Institute of Child Development, about how to help children from hard places heal.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why is parenting abused children different from traditional parenting?
- What are the 3 most important things you should do during the first 6 months home with a newly adopted child?
- How can we discipline our children while still remaining connected and create attachment?
- How can we help a child who has tantrums whenever he hears the word “no,” or is told he can’t do something?
- How long should parents stay home (if possible) after adoption?
- How can parents be proactive with children who have experienced abuse and neglect in order to help them and to improve behavior?
- Parenting kids adopted from foster care and internationally can be hard on the marriage and especially when one of the parents is the one getting educated on the type of parenting these kids need and the other one has not “bought into” it yet. How to help both parents get on the same page.
- How should parents handle criticism (implied or direct) about their parenting style when they are trying to follow the empower to connect style?
- What are some practical tools for encouraging attachment?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family
January 8, 2021
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What should you expect as you return home with a newly adopted baby or child? What are the common emotions? We talk with Laura Jean Beauvais, a licensed professional counselor and mother of two adult daughters through adoption. She has conducted domestic, foster, and international adoptions for more than 25 years.
In this episode, we cover:
Adopting a Newborn
- What are some common emotions when adopting a newborn?
- What are some common stresses when adopting a newborn?
- How may the revocation period affect the transition to new adoptive parenting?
- Expectations of extended family during this transition period.
- How do the stresses of newly adopted families differ from a family that gives birth to their child?
- How does the pre-adoption process affect this transition to new parenthood?
- What are some feelings that come up about birth parents after the baby comes home?
- Realities of open adoptions
- Handling grief of birth family
- Feeling like the presence of a birth mom makes the adoptive mom less of a “real” mom
- The balance of power shifting from the expectant/birth mom to the adoptive mom
- How much of your child’s “story” should you share?
- How can infertility struggles impact the transition period?
Adopting a Child Past Infancy
- What are some common emotions when adopting a child from foster care or through international adoption?
- What are some common stresses when adopting a child past infancy?
- The challenge of setting realistic expectations.
- How to help your child and you settle in to becoming a new family.
Post Adoption Depression
- What is post-adoption depression?
- What are the symptoms?
- How common is post-adoption depression?
- Can fathers also have post-adoption depression?
- Who is at risk for post-adoption depression? Are there ways to predict which people are more prone to post-adoption depression?
- How can post-adoption depression impact parenting?
- What are some steps to take to prevent post-adoption depression?
- What should you do if you think you are suffering from post-adoption depression?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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