Episode 74: Postpartum Nutrition, Meal Prep, Minerals and more with Allegra Gast, RDN IBCLC

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Postpartum nutrition is SO important and yet as busy and tired moms, it's hard to prioritize. That's why this week Rachael brings on Allegra Gast, a functional registered dietitian and international board-certified lactation consultant, to talk all about realistic, easy tips for postpartum nutrition and breastfeeding. Inside this episode you'll learn: importance of nutrition for postpartum recovery and milk supply how new moms often experience fatigue, brain fog and rage/ low mood because of depleted nutrients and minerals tips for maintaining energy levels as a new mom (even when you're sleep deprived!) how to create easy balanced meals with adequate protein, quality carbohydrates, healthy fats, and minerals meal prep tips for busy parents how food can help balance blood sugar and energy levels how our nervous system is affected by improper nutrition benefits of hair mineral testing and much more! Allegra Gast is a functional registered dietitian and international board certified lactation consultant who is passionate about helping families navigate both their postpartum health and their breastfeeding journeys. Allegra offers virtual consults for families all around the world. She started her business, Aloha Nutrition, when she lived in Hawaii but currently resides in Texas with her military husband, and 4 kids including baby twins! Allegra’s instagram: @aloha.nutrition Aloha Nutrition Website: https://www.aloha-nutrition.com/ Hair tissue mineral testing: https://l.bttr.to/DYgUm Free mineral guide: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/y9a3e8 Postpartum nutrition course: https://education.aloha-nutrition.com/product/nourish-postpartum-nutrition-essentials/ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram | Tiktok | Website If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:40.1	I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm speaking with Allegra Gast, a functional registered dietitian and international board certified lactation consultant who's passionate about helping families navigate both their postpartum health and their breastfeeding journeys.
0:54.4	Allegra offers virtual consults for families all over the world and she started her business,
0:58.4	Aloha Nutrition when she lived in Hawaii, but she currently resides in Texas with her military
1:03.3	husband and four kids, including her new, newish baby twins. So Allegra, welcome to the podcast.
1:12.5	Thank you so much for joining today.
1:17.7	Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here. So we've been connected just kind of through Instagram and through the like baby sleep and lactation world for a long time. And we recently actually
1:22.3	worked together a little bit more. Personally, when I did my hair minerals test with you after suffering lots of hair loss
1:29.5	post-COVID and we will definitely get into that. I also would love to hear about how your
1:34.0	nursing journey with your twins is going and how your postpartum recovery has been this time
1:38.7	around. But first, I would love for listeners who are new to you to just kind of hear a little
1:43.7	bit about your
1:44.1	background and how you got into this type of work with families.
1:48.8	Yeah, thank you.
1:49.9	So I started my career as a registered dietitian thinking I wanted to do sports nutrition,
1:55.5	but I got my first job working at WIC, women infant and children, which is a federally funded agency to provide food for
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