Course Overview
About the Course
Nutrition plays a vital role in supporting fertility and overall well-being, especially after experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. Explore how dietary patterns and key nutrients can influence reproductive health, hormonal balance, and emotional recovery. This course also addresses the connection between grief and eating behaviors, helping participants understand the complex relationship between food, emotions, and the body during times of loss. Whether you're a healthcare provider guiding patients or someone personally navigating life after loss, this session offers practical, compassionate strategies to promote nutritional well-being and support future fertility goals.
Learning Objectives
• Understand the impact of nutritional status on fertility, particularly after experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. • Identify key nutrients and dietary patterns that support reproductive health and hormonal balance. • Recognize the emotional and psychological factors influencing eating behaviors during the grieving process. • Develop personalized strategies to improve nutritional well-being and support fertility goals post-loss.
Who Should Attend
Healthcare professionals working with families in the perinatal period. This includes mental health providers, social workers, nurses, physicians and midwives, doulas and birth workers, chaplains, lactation consultants, health educators, and more.
Meet Your Instructor
Judy Simon MS, RDN, CD, CHES, FAND specializes in nutrition counseling for individuals, couples and families. Judy provides evidence-based nutrition counseling in reproductive nutrition (fertility), PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) and eating disorders. She is recognized nationally as an expert in nutrition and fertility. Judy offers her clients the unique experience of a weight inclusive non-diet approach to healthy eating. Many of her clients have tried traditional diets and programs and failed. Instead, Judy combines her expertise in nutrition and coaches her clients to success, overcome eating disorders and master self-management of their health. Judy’s professional contributions garner national attention from the nutrition and fertility fields. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics awarded Judy the Excellence in Practice in Women’s Health in 2014 and the Community Practice Award for Excellence, Washington Academy Nutrition Dietetics 2017.
Compassionate Care Starts With You
Where compassion meets competence—providing grief-informed support with empathy and skill.
$35.00