Pregnancy & preconception

Action plan

Your guide to a positive pregnancy

Simple, actionable tips for a healthy, happy pregnancy.

Create a healthy diet plan
Develop a pregnancy exercise regime
Check your supplementation
Be more mindful
Focus on what matters

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Pregnancy & preconception

Action plan

5 steps to healthy preconception

Get yourself in tip top baby making shape with our 5 step action plan.

Talk to your health care provider
Adopt conception friendly diet and exercise habits
Stock up on supplements
Learn to manage stress
Look at your partner's health and lifestyle

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Pregnancy & preconception

27 July 2010

Pregnancy health

When you’re pregnant looking after your health is more important than ever. A healthy diet and lifestyle optimises your own wellbeing and that of your baby, and prepares your body for labour.

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01 April 2010

Morning sickness

Morning sickness affects many women in the early stages of pregnancy, usually ceasing around the end of the first trimester. Despite its name, it may occur at any time of day.

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06 September 2017

4 diet hacks to help support a healthy pregnancy

26 April 2017

5 essential nutrients for pregnancy

Pregnancy & preconception

Blackmores Pregnancy Iron has been developed specifically for pregnant women containing iron as the only active ingredient. It may assist in the management of dietary iron deficiency and contains a special low nausea, low constipation form of iron that is gentle on the digestive system.

Iron (II) glycinate(iron 24 mg):87.7 mg

Iron is an essential mineral and an important component of proteins, such as haemoglobin, involved in oxygen transport and metabolism. Iron containing foods include lean red meat, poultry, fish, oysters, dried fruit, legumes, beetroot, whole grains and tofu.

Dosage

Adults: Take 1 tablet daily with meals, or as professionally prescribed

Not for the treatment of iron deficiency conditions.

Drink plenty of water.

Consult your healthcare professional before taking with any other product containing iron.

Pregnancy & preconception

I-Folic™

$21.49

Blackmores I-Folic™ is a combination of iodine and folic acid, both important preconception & pregnancy nutrients.

Potassium iodide(iodine 150 µg):196.2 µg

Iodine is an essential trace element and is an integral part of the thyroid hormone, thyroxine, required for normal growth and metabolism. An adequate intake of iodine is particularly important for pregnant and breastfeeding women when infants are entirely dependent on their mother's intake of iodine for normal growth and brain development. Foods containing iodine include seawater fish, shellfish, seaweeds and iodised salt.

Folic acid:500 µg

A water-soluble B group vitamin, folate is involved in the synthesis of DNA and RNA and the activation of vitamin B12 into it's active form. Folic acid is found in fresh green leafy vegetables, broccoli, mushrooms, legumes, nuts and fortified cereals.

Dosage

Adults – Take 1 tablet a day with a meal, or as professionally prescribed

Do not exceed the stated dose of folic acid except on medical advice. If you have had a baby with a neural tube defect/spina bifida seek specific medical advice
Not to be taken with Blackmores Conceive Well Gold, Blackmores Pregnancy & Breast-Feeding Gold, Blackmores Folate, or other folic acid containing supplements
Consult your healthcare professional before use if suffering from a thyroid condition