The Miracle of Life

PREGNANCY

Life is a blessing. To be able to carry your little one is a miracle and a journey you will never forget. In order to have a healthy Mother and Baby the soon to be or expectant Mother must prepare and take key essential nutrients to have a health pregnancy and post pregnancy healing.

Mom and Baby

Preparing for motherhood is an exciting time or can be a surprising time. What ever the circumstance is having your body prepared is essential for a healthy pregnancy. The months before you get pregnant are critical, so whether you're actively trying or just thinking about it, it's never too soon to make sure your body is fully nourished.

Vita-Lea Women is great as a prenatal/postnatal vitamin, providing 800 mcg of folic acid, 200 mcg of iodine and 18 mg of iron.
Vitalizer Women is also excellent as a prenatal/postnatal multivitamin. Vitalizer Women provides a full spectrum of nutritional support, including 800 mcg of folic acid, 200 mcg of iodine, and 18 mg of Iron.
Meology Prenatal delivers 23 essential vitamins and minerals, including folic acid, iron, iodine, and calcium, plus omega-3s and choline and can be customized to address your unique needs, including conception support and stress relief.*

Meology Prenatal

Meology Prenatal Comparison

Meology Prenatal

Heart Burn/ Acid Reflex - Chewable Calmag Plus - Shaklee Meology Prenatal

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Shaklee "BABY HELPS"

Collicky baby: make a tea of Stomach Soothing Complex Most of the times it is because they are constipated.

Fever: Start the Performance Hydrate in water and give to the child. It will keep them hydrated and the fever will never spike.

Ear Infection: Soften the Optiflora Probiotic bead and put the paste you find inside the little baby’s mouth. Enough will get to the baby’s stomach and help replenish the microflora. Important to change your cleaners to Shaklee as many phosphates in detergents will clog up the ear canal and can cause other health issues.

Breathing problems: Use only Shaklee cleaners on anything that surround the baby- clothes, bedding, etc. Can crush up Alfalfa

Constipated: Herb-Lax until going normally, then the Optiflora

Probiotic should continue until all cleared up

Eczema: Give the child Optiflora, Omegaguard inside, and outside wash child in water with the Shaklee Baby Gentle Wash or a squirt of Basic-H2 in the bath water is wonderful.

Some Unusual “uses”

Baby Wash: can use the Basic-H2 (no scent), Hand Wash (scent is light a natural), Body Wash. Need just a small amount of any of Shaklee’s washes.

Teething: Have the chew the Chewable Calcium Mag Plus

Healthy Pregnancy – Getting Ready for a Baby Essentials

Complete nourishment is key in conception to prepare for the healthiest pregnancy possible. Prep your body with these essential nutrients!

For Moms-to-be

1. Increases Pregnancy Chances
Protein helps you to maintain an optimum body weight, one of the key determinants in maintaining normal hormones level crucial to:

Increase implantation chance.
Maintain production of healthy egg and sperm.

TIP! Consume 65g protein or 2-3 servings of protein, daily.

2. Prevent Birth Defects
Not only B vitamins and folic acid helpful in increasing pregnancy chances, they are also helpful in:

Improving the success rate of fertility treatment.
Reducing risk of neural tube defects in the baby.

TIP! Consume 400mcg of Folic Acid once you’re planning of starting a family.

3. Healthier Hormone Levels
Acting as an antioxidant, vitamin C helps reduce damage in your body due to free radicals and helps in promoting:

Healthier ovary function.
An optimum level of hormones that promotes healthy uterine thickening to prepare for pregnancy.

4. Improve Fertility
A study done among women showed that high intake of seafood and/or consumption of omega-3 fatty acids supplement helps to:

Improve egg’s quality and ovulation rate.
Improve fertility rate among women more than 35 years old.

5. Prepares for Fertilization
Calcium plays a crucial role in the preconception stage as it:

Triggers the embryo’s growth process.
Creates a conducive environment for fertilization.

6. Nourish the Body
A study done among women who have ovulation infertility showed that regular consumption of multivitamins and iron helps to:

Reduce risk of failure in ovulation.
Promote healthy ovulation cycle.

7. Healthier Cells for Healthier FUNCTIONS
Acting as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and even anti-ageing properties, growing evidence showed that polyphenols are beneficial in improving ovarian function by:

Promoting production of healthy and mature ovum.
Protecting the ovary and eggs against free radical damage.

For Dads-to-be

1. Power Boost for Sperms
Well known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, polyphenols help to:

Increase sperm concentration.
Increase sperm motility.

2. Increases Sperm Energy
Coenzyme Q10 boosts energy in sperm which consequently leads to:

Increase in healthy sperm count.
Increase in sperm movement.

3. Enhance Healthy Sperms
Needed in a small amount, zinc plays huge role in male’s fertility as it works to:

Maintain healthy testosterone levels for healthy sperm production.
Promote production of normal sperms.

Healthy Family thanks to Shaklee Nutrition

Shaklee Pregnancy: A Midwife's Perspective

After delivering 76 babies in the home - without anesthesia, fancy equipment, and a staff of doctors, nurses, aides and orderlies, I'm convinced that maternal nutrition is the single most important factor in the production of healthy offspring and a well mother. Shaklee mothers experience significantly less blood loss (2-3 teaspoons compared to 1 to 2 pints). Their placentas are smaller, firmer, and healthier. There is less vaginal tearing. Newborn babies are more alert, more contented and less prone to birth-related injury.

Specific points:

There was no colic noted in the Shaklee babies.
One patient ate Vita-Cal all through her labor and had almost a pain ree experience. Apparently the needs of the muscles are so intense that by supplying the calcium, she greatly reduced the sensation of contraction.
Childbearing years are very hard on a woman's body. Yet the women taking Shaklee food supplements had fewer complaints of constipation and vomiting. In running blood tests on these women, it was found Shaklee vitamin products were absorbed and utilized by the body. Synthetic vitamins were not.

I can't imagine anything that is more valuable to you as a parent than a healthy child. The time to invest in that child's health is while that child is developing. The cost is well worth it to have the healthiest baby you can have, because once that baby is born, there's not much you can do. You can do so much while that baby is growing inside you.

Shaklee Supplements suggested:

3 Tbsp. Instant Protein daily
2 Vita-Lea daily
1 Vita-E 400IU per meal
1 B-Complex per meal
4 Alfalfa per meal
2 Lecithin per meal
1 Zinc per day
1 Iron per meal
4 Calcium Magnesium per meal
1 Herb Lax at night for 3 weeks 2 at night until 7th month, and 4 at 8 months, 5 at 9 months. Fairly high levels of Herb Lax are recommended because half of all toxemia is caused by poor elimination.

As a woman's body starts to soften for delivery, joints are actually softened up, so when delivery starts, the baby's head can pass more easily. All organs are pushed out. Hormones soften the intestinal tract too. It becomes jammed up and pressured and has more difficulty eliminating toxins.

Nursing: Extremely important to continue with your Shaklee Supplements.

--Judy Decker, Lay Midwife Fairview, PA

Testimony – 8 children and a super healthy family!

I have had 8 children, all Shaklee kids from the “womb to the table” and have had the following results with all of them. 2014 – my oldest is 24 and my youngest is 9. Not one has ever had an ear infection, strep throat, or needed anti-biotics at any time in their lives. These are the fantastic “side effects” of Shaklee kids! (I love the Herb-Lax, especially during the last stages of pregnancy and after the birth! It kept me open and going normally- what a blessing!)

Heidi, St. Cloud, MN