Thrive In Pregnancy & Breastfeeding

There are actually studies that have shown that you need to increase your, usually most people use levothyroxine but that is not always the best. You have to increase that by 25% when you have your first missed period. And unfortunately, a lot of times women are not even getting into their OBGYN and getting bloodwork until they are in their past, their first trimester, or sometimes even 12 weeks. So if you think or know you have a thyroid issue, you definitely want to get in right away, get the proper lab work, work with your functional or integrative physician, and make sure that you are on top of that right away, because that is when the baby, developing baby, make sure they need that hormone. Now let us talk about breastfeeding. So breastfeeding, you want to make sure you have adequate fibroid hormones. And a lot of times when women are struggling with breastfeeding, I always say to them, have you checked, done a full annihilation of your thyroid? It is a lot of the time if we have hypo or low-acting thyroid, hypo, hypothyroidism, low thyroid hormones, then you are not going to produce as much breast milk. Okay. And that’s another thing that we really have to make sure that we are checking postpartum or common radiology or checking a full thyroid panel. And we’re making sure that that is adequate and that the mother can produce breast milk for the growing baby, which breast milk is amazing for infants. So those are two things that are really important. Also, thyroid is important for fertility also. So very, very important gland. As you guys have heard during these summit talks, we definitely want to make sure we are on top of this. We want to test and not guess and do a full evaluation. Thank you so much for listening to this mini talk with me. I hope you enjoyed it.