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A few examples of ordinary everyday items you should avoid while pregnant to reduce your exposure to heavy metals are:

• tuna,
• conventional deodorants,
• makeup,
• hair sprays,
• hair dye or perms, and
• aluminum foil.

You can still have a cavity filled while pregnant, but we recommend that you visit a dentist that will follow specific protocols. They will be able to ensure you don’t receive a mercury/amalgam filling, which could affect your health and the health of your unborn baby.

Heavy metals like mercury and aluminum can pass through the placenta and be delivered to your unborn baby. This can cause many side effects including affecting a baby’s oral health. Since heavy metals can also build up in the mother’s kidney, brain, lung, and liver, it’s best to try to avoid these as much as possible.

There is a common misconception that if an expecting mother has swollen feet, it’s caused by the amount of water she drinks throughout the day. Swelling feet is a result of other health issues, and we recommend seeing a family doctor for further investigation.

Drinking water is not the culprit.  In fact, drinking water can help expectant mothers as it offers a very gentle way to do a lymphatic flush.

Drinking water is an excellent way to detoxify the kidneys and bladder of an expectant mom. That’s why we recommend that they try to drink as much water as possible throughout the day.

Food cravings vary, but some of the healthy fats we would recommend are:

• avocado,
• BBQ wild salmon,
• butter from pasture-raised cows,
• eggs from pasture-fed chickens,
• olive oil,
• and soaked fatty nuts like cashews.

Healthy fats are development fuel for an unborn baby. Without these proper fats, a baby’s brain and other organs will not grow properly.

One hundred percent of a mother’s nutritional intake is passed to a developing embryo. That’s what it is so vital that expectant mothers understand how to develop a healthy, balanced diet. Improper eating habits can not only affect the baby’s development but also their oral health, even before they are born.

Mothers are the vessels in which the baby receives all its nutrition. We recommend a three-step approach to ensure proper tooth development, and we call the steps the three H’s. They are:

• healthy fats,
• hydration, and
• heavy metals.

By making critical nutritional and healthy lifestyle choices, we can work together to ensure a healthy start for you and your baby.

Yes, your baby’s teeth start to develop when the baby is about six weeks in utero.