Fueling Your Journey: Essential Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy and Postpartum Recovery… Protein Shake!
Nutrition can play a huge part in our pelvic health especially for people who are pregnant and postpartum. There is so much information out there about what the ‘best’ nutrition plan is to fuel your prenatal journey or your postpartum recovery, however, it’s really dependent on the individual!
As a reminder, combining each macronutrient (fat, carb, and protein) when eating helps regulate blood sugar and allows for better absorption so you can utilize all of the nutrients!
If you’re having a hard time getting in enough protein, using shakes is a great way to accomplish that goal! As a reminder, this protein shake is NOT a meal replacement. This is a snack to help supplement your active life and to get more protein in.
🍓🫐Strawberries and blueberries (carbs) have a variety of vitamins and antioxidants that help with baby development and keeps your heart healthy
🐮Pick a protein powder that feels good to you and watch for added sugars!
🥜Almond butter (fat) has vitamin E which can help with scarring and calcium which can help with bone health
💧I use water to help the blending for a variety of reasons but you can use milk or low sugar fruit juices as well
Ingredients
1/2 cup of frozen strawberries
1/2 cup of frozen blueberries
1 serving of chocolate protein powder
1 TBSP of almond butter
Water to desired thickness
Steps
Place ingredients into blender
Blend
Enjoy!
