BECOME A CERTIFIED PERINATAL NUTRITION EXPERT
The Professional Perinatal Nutrition Program
12-week, evidence-first training for seasoned or aspiring perinatal professionals who want to confidently support families with nutrition through preconception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
In just 2–3 hours per week, you'll build a specialized, practical expertise in perinatal nutrition, learn how to translate research into guidance you can stand behind, and create a perinatal nutrition offering that's ready to launch.
Registration is open now for the Fall 2026 Cohort starting September 30th.
Expert nutrition support for expecting and new mothers is crucial. But misinformation, conflicting research, and the nuances of pregnancy and postpartum make it overwhelming to try and offer nutrition advice.
In this professional program, you can become a Certified Perinatal Nutrition Expert, ready to elevate your business with holistic support and personalized nutrition expertise!
In as little as 12 weeks, you'll learn to:
✓ Offer evidence-based advice on preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum nutrition that finally reflects the latest research.
✓ Empower your clients with tools and strategies that actually help them feed themselves well during their unique pregnancy and postpartum experiences.
✓ Create a valuable offering for your business with your newfound expertise, like a workshop, eBook, or a new service you can launch with Lindsay’s support!
Support Your Clients at a New Level and Add New Revenue Streams to Your Business, Too!
If you're already an expert in nutrition, birth, postpartum, or other forms of perinatal care, you know how crucial nutrition is for your clients' well-being.
They have questions, worries, and complaints that require tailored and accurate support. And it's no surprise that many women are dissatisfied with conventional perinatal nutrition guidance.
How amazing would it feel to confidently guide them through nutrition in the most transformative time of their lives? To help your clients get better outcomes, without the years it takes to study perinatal nutrition on your own?
That's where the professional program has you covered.
We're Starting a Movement For More Nourished Parents and Babies.
Ever felt like the ways people teach and communicate nutrition advice feels off?
As a mom, the advice I got felt judgmental, clinical, and challenging, especially during pregnancy and new parenthood. It never felt do-able, and just added to my guilt about what I was eating.
Ever since, my mission has been this: how can we create a community that treats nutrition with the importance it deserves at this stage of life while also making it do-able and shame-free?
A few years into my business it became clear that a non-diet, real-life approach attracted more clients—it helped me grow my business significantly.
Now, my success is your blueprint:
→ the evidence to be a perinatal nutrition pro,
→ the practical client support to help your community feel confident,
→ and the strategies to tailor recommendations to meet individual clients' needs.
We're not learning one 'gold standard' of perinatal nutrition that will fit every client. (That doesn't exist!)
Instead, we focus on how to offer evidence-based custom support to meet your clients where they are, with realistic solutions and recommendations to help them feel their best and improve their outcomes.
This is your opportunity to give your clients the support they deserve and step into the next level of your expertise.
THE Food Doula approach
The Professional Perinatal Nutrition Program does things differently.
This is How You Can Make a Difference in the Lives of Your Clients and Elevate Your Business
It's all about the research and expertise that applies to real-life.
Pregnant and postpartum women don't need weight loss hacks, a vague list of supplements that will "cure" their symptoms, or "best" practices that are actually based on out-of-date research.
They need an evidence-based, person-centred, food-first approach for their real, lived experiences.
Introducing the R.E.A.L. approach
This signature Food Doula process is where food meets compassion, equipping you with practical knowledge to address real-life experiences and concerns.
A deep understanding of evidence-based nutritional needs is just the beginning. You'll develop expertise that actually works and support clients, so that they keep coming back.
Research (R)
Get the facts from the latest, leading research (not outdated guidelines) on how nutrition can support every aspect of your clients' experiences, no matter the stage or concern.
Empathy (E)
Gain clarity on how the lived experience of pregnancy and postpartum impacts nutrition, so you can meet clients where they are.
Actions (A)
Get a playbook on how to offer practical, "How-to" solutions for your clients that validate what they're dealing with, offer natural approaches, and focus on realistic ways to meet their nutrient needs and feel better.
Life Changes (L)
Learn to translate the research with behaviour change theory to create specific tools, strategies, programs, services, and education that your clients will actually use.
This is the certification that gives you...
→ Expertise in the role of food during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum.
→ Confidence to provide evidence-based, comprehensive care and demonstrate your value to clients.
→ A specialization to make your business stand out in a way that helps clients, without imposter syndrome holding you back.
→ The potential for additional income streams that help you reduce your workload or the time you spend on-call.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Everything You Need to Become a Certified Perinatal Nutrition Expert
Nausea? Gestational Diabetes? Postpartum exhaustion? Nutrition for breastfeeding? It's all covered through evidence-based content focused on the lived experiences and complaints of your clients.
Plus, the ultimate ROI you get in this program: creating a launch-ready nutrition offering with individual feedback from me to ensure you're confident in putting it out there!
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Over 12-weeks, weekly 2-hour live classes will walk you through the nutritional needs and practical implications for every stage of the pregnancy and postpartum journey.
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Evaluating Perinatal Nutrition Evidence
Fundamentals of Perinatal Nutrition
Bridging Gaps in Perinatal Nutrition Care
Preconception Nutrition
Nutrition for Fertility and Pregnancy Loss
Nutrition for Vegetarian, Vegan + Multiple Pregnancies
Trimester 1: Physiology and Practical Solutions
Trimester 2: Physiology and Practical Solutions
Gestational Diabetes
Trimester 3: Physiology and Practical Solutions
Nutrition for Birth and Postpartum Recovery
Nutrition for Postpartum Repletion and Mental Health
In addition to the Core Curriculum, you’ll also have the opportunity to access classes from top experts in the field who will help you go deeper on topics including nutrition for IVF, supporting the maternal microbiome, Ayurvedic postpartum nutrition and herbs for pregnancy and lactation. Additional expert sessions to help prepare you to succeed and get to the next level in your business are also provided (learn from top experts in social media, perinatal nutrition coaching, branding and marketing, and more!). -
Want to level up your expertise even more in just a few more weeks? Add three additional weeks to expand your expertise to include breastfeeding and formula nutrition, along with an evidence and food-based understanding of infant food introduction.
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Your easy to navigate private classroom portal not only hosts our group classes, but gives you exclusive resources, too! All students and alumni can access Dive Deeper Resources for every single topic, plus all class recordings, slides, done-for-you client tools and perinatal nutrition expert handbook, plus a private community group for on-going discussion and support.
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The biggest ROI is applying your learning directly into your business so that you can expand your offerings, revenue streams, and prices.
Have you ever taken a course, then looked back months or years later only to realize you haven’t applied any of it? Yes? Me too! That’s why applying your learning is built right into this course (something you won’t find anywhere else!).
Each student will create an offering - a workshop, group program, coaching protocol, meal delivery service, ebook, guide, cookbook proposal, or other resource or service, all with Lindsay’s direct support.
And yes — you'll have this done within the program timeline. No analysis paralysis or imposter syndrome here!
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Learn from an award-winning cookbook author, perinatal nutrition expert, health researcher, Mama and doula.
In 2019, I made a heart-led decision to leave my decade-long career as an internationally published health researcher and behaviour change strategist and leapt into perinatal nutrition. It became clear to me quickly that not only do I love this work, but there is so much work here to be done.
In just two years, I authored and released my first book, 'The Food Doula Cookbook,' which won best health cookbook in the country. I built a full roster of coaching clients and joined the faculty at a top holistic nutrition school in Canada.
What I know for sure is that there is a massive gap in perinatal nutrition - 90%+ of women aren’t meeting their nutrient needs, and most are wholly unsatisfied with the nutrition support they receive.
To change these statistics and help women thrive and feel good (like they deserve!), we need you (yes YOU!) to be part of this movement.
I know it will change your clients lives - and yours too!
HOW THE PROFESSIONAL PERINATAL NUTRITION PROGRAM IS CHANGING THE LIVES OF PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR CLIENTS!
IS THE PROFESSIONAL PERINATAL NUTRITION PROGRAM RIGHT FOR YOU?
Every pregnancy or postpartum-supporting professional, from midwives and doulas to nutritionists, dietitians, nurses, and fitness trainers can make a huge impact on their clients through specialized, in depth training in perinatal nutrition. That includes you!
This is the perfect certification for you if…
You are an active or aspiring professional in the perinatal or nutrition field, looking to expand your knowledge and expertise.
You help women with motherhood-related goals where nutrition would make a big difference to their experience and outcomes
You’re passionate about nutrition but your training hasn’t prepared you to speak confidently about the nuanced topics within perinatal nutrition.
You need reliable information and solutions on nutrition that can inform your approach to helping clients' individual needs.
You want to stand out in your industry and grow your business without burning out from overnights or on-call hours by becoming an expert in perinatal nutrition and expanding your offerings.
Whether you’re an expert already or just starting out exploring a career that supports mothers, your clients will put your advice into action, reap the benefits, and rave about how you changed their life!
Core Course Tuition
$1,997 USD
There are several options for investing in the program
offered with no extra fees:
3-Month Tuition = 3 monthly payments of $666.00
6-Month Tuition = 6 monthly payments of $333.00
GET STARTED
Are you ready to take the first step towards becoming a Certified Perinatal Nutrition Expert?
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Click here to register for the Fall Cohort
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Get immediate confirmation you’re in!
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Get excited that you’re claiming your future as a Certified Perinatal Nutrition Expert!
Still have a few questions?
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The Professional Perinatal Nutrition Program is for professionals who have a business (or want one!) supporting families navigating the perinatal journey. That means doulas, nutritionists, midwives, nurses, pre/post natal trainers, pelvic floor physiotherapists or mental health specialists are perfect for this program.
No prior training or certifications are necessary. If this is your first step into a business supporting the perinatal journey – we welcome you here!
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Yes! All classes are live and virtual, are recorded if you can't make it, and are available to you along with all course materials in your private class portal. In addition to all live classes, program spots are capped in order to foster a true sense of community and to provide mentorship for your final assignment (both of which are big reasons why the program has a 90%+ completion rate, unheard of for online courses!).
You also won’t find any pre-recorded classes here. The course is updated and taught live, every single cohort, because the research is always evolving!
Because up-to-date research and learning is so vital to this work, all students who complete the course get access to an Alumni portal where they have access to every new class and resource as it is updated, year after year (at no extra fee)! -
Classes take place every week on Wednesdays at 12-2pm ET, and every class is recorded and made available to students who cant make the live class, or who want to to back and watch time and time again!
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To accommodate our community of busy professionals (and often, expecting or new mothers!), course content has been curated to fit into a 2-hours per week time commitment for classes, plus your final assignment, which is due several weeks after live classes end. Optional resources are provided (academic journal articles, books, podcast interviews, expert sessions, recipe assignments etc.) for further, non-mandatory learning in your course portal (which you’ll have access to during and after you finish the course!).
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This program is very unique in that it covers both the comprehensive research evidence behind using food and nutrition to support all stages of the perinatal journey and the person-focused practical skills you need to successfully support clients in their real lives, straight from health behaviour change theory.
The 12-week Core Course covers preconception, fertility, vegetarian/vegan pregnancies, multiples, trimester-by-trimester nutrition, miscarriage, gestational diabetes (and many real-life pregnancy complaints like managing nausea, heartburn, fatigue, constipation, sleep difficulties and more with food), postpartum mental health, postpartum healing and depletion and much more!
In addition to the Core Course, all students have access to 14 Expert classes (and growing!) to deepen their knowledge across nuanced nutrition topics like Nutrition for IVF, Ayurvedic Postpartum Nutrition, Herbal Options for Pregnancy and Lactation, and business skill classes including How to Sell on Social Media, Recipe Development, Perinatal Nutrition Coaching and Practical Applications of your Certification for your real life.
Finally, the optional 3-week Infant Nutrition Mini Course, which takes place after the Core Course finishes, is an opportunity to add on an expertise in breastfeeding nutrition, formula nutrition, and infant feeding to your Certification.
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The investment for the core course is $1,997 USD, taxes included.
Course fees can be paid in full, or with a 3- or 6-month payment plan which are offered without any additional fees (as a fellow small business owner, I don't believe in charging you more to use a payment plan!).
The optional Infant Nutrition Mini Course can be added on for $397 USD and is only available to students who have completed the Core Course.
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The next program cohort will run in Fall 2026 from September 30th - December 16th.
