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… Health authorities keen to prevent birth defects and pregnancy complications that can arise from obesity, diabetes and poor lifestyle and nutrition habits will offer the advice in new state-government-funded clinics.
An experienced midwife will run the PLaN (preconception, lifestyle and nutrition) clinics.
A trial clinic opened at the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick … the scheme has now been expanded to … Sydney Hospital.
Women … can have consultations by phone …
“They may need to have some blood tests, then sort out … weight loss,” … “… can we make sure they’re taking vitamins, taking folic acid before they get pregnant?
… If their BMI was above 30 … they may be referred to a dietitian.
Women would also be advised to quit smoking and drinking … and take folic acid to reduce the chance of having a baby with spina bifida …
… ” … increasing numbers of people are looking to have children and this service aims to help put them on a path to a healthy pregnancy before they conceive,” …
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448