Preparing by body for pregnancy- Help!

[MamaKye]

Hello everyone!
I've been having baby fever for a while now. I want to try to conceive within this year or beginning of next. But first, I want to get my body good and healthy. During and after my last pregnancy, I learned soooo many things about how the state of my body should have been in before and during pregnancy. I paid for it throughout my pregnancy and after.

I was wondering if anyone had any really good reliable suggestions and resources for anything I should be doing now. But here are a few things I am really interested in. 1. Heavy metal detoxing 2. Parasite cleanse 3. full body detox. 3. kidney stone

I know there are certain ways to go about most of those things but I'm not exactly sure what products/holistic practitioners to use, in what order and how close one should do it before conceiving. I've had a number of health problems over the years and I can't afford to make myself more sick by doing any of those things the wrong way. Any suggestions/recommendations?

If this helps any more, I'll be moving to York PA in a month. So if anyone knows anything about that area, I would appreciate any advice.

[WuWei]

Preconception care: Mineral Deficiency Test
Superfoods? Additional stuff for TTC? My Plan.
REAL folate is much better than folic acid
101 most nourishing foods while ttc/pregnant/nursing
detox gone wrong: what not to do
Heavy duty dtoxes and cleanses while NOT pregnant or nursing?

Those should get you started.


Pat

[MamaKye]

Thank you soooo much!

[mellowjello]

You are so smart to be doing this!!! If I had it to do over again, I'd go on the GAPS diet (wean onto it slowly), introduce food based probiotics to my diet, and do parasite cleanses. The GAPS diet is detoxing in and of itself, and is very healthy. I'd make sure I did all the things you're supposed to do to care for your adrenals (check out Dr. Lam's website). And I would have gotten on Iodine sooner.

The other best healing thing I've done is energy healing. I know this sounds hippy dippy, and I'm from a scientific/analytical family so it took me a long time to come around to this, but this has been a source of the most amazing healing I've experienced. I would read the books by Carolyn Myss. One of her books is titled "Why Some People Don't Heal and How They Can." It is geared towards people who have serious illness, but it really applies to anyone. It just as easily could have been titled "Why Some People Can't Fully Self Actualize and How They Can."