How to Prepare Your Body for Pregnancy in an Increasingly Toxic World

For me, being a mother has been the most rewarding, demanding, exhilarating, and beautiful experience of my life. Of all that I have accomplished, I am most proud of my three children. And like any good mother, I am fiercely protective of my brood, which has included doing whatever I can to make sure their environment is as toxic free as possible - including preparing my body for pregnancy. So when Greenopia's General Manager and my Life Manager Charli and her husband decided they were ready to start trying to get pregnant, and she asked me for guidance, I was eager to share with her what I had learned from my own experience. Charli has worked for me more than eight years now, and I consider her more than an employee. We regularly have conversations about the safest beauty and household products, plant-based eating and exercise. A huge advocate for environmental healthful living, she has always taken note how I navigate living a healthful life. But her curiosity peaked around these topics once she decided at age twenty-seven that she wanted to begin her journey into motherhood. Charli wanted to make sure she was taking the right steps to create a nourishing toxin free vessel for her baby to gestate. She also knew that required her to prepare her body before she got pregnant and she would need to do that a year in advance. When she asked for my advice, the first thing I told her she needed to do was stop taking any medication. This included birth control, which would re...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news