Eating for Pregnancy Service

The Eating for Pregnancy service was established in 1989. The service is funded by Wellbeing of Women and serviced by Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition at the University of Sheffield.

The Eating for Pregnancy provides information for women on healthy eating and food safety before and during pregnancy, and whilst breast feeding.

Wellbeing of Women

Wellbeing of Women is the only UK charity dedicated to solving the health problems that affect women by funding medical research and training into all aspects of reproductive health.

Over the past 40 years, we have invested millions of pounds into funding the very best in medical research and training, resulting in some remarkable progress. In fact, every woman living in the UK since 1964 will have benefited from advances in healthcare made possible by our research. Wellbeing of Women is the partner charity of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition, University of Sheffield

The Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition provides information on nutrition during pregnancy to pregnant women and those planning pregnancy who have concerns about any aspects of their diet and possible effects on the outcome of their pregnancy. Its services are also available to others including health professionals and the media.

The Centre also holds a database of scientific papers related to nutrition in pregnancy. It is intended that any advice given over the telephone will be as up to date as possible but strictly based on valid completed scientific experiments rather than on speculation or theory.

The Centre is headed by Dr Robert Fraser and Fiona Ford:

Dr Robert Fraser MD FRCOG DCH

Dr Fraser is Co-Director of the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition, University of Sheffield, and is a member of the Department of Health Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition - Maternal & Child Nutrition Subgroup, and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Public Health Programme Guidance Committee on Maternal & Child Nutrition. http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/staff/fraser.html

Fiona Ford MSc

Fiona Ford MSc is Co-Director of the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition and is a State Registered Dietician. She also has a Master's degree in Health Research. Fiona is an expert commentator for babycentre.co.uk and regularly contributes to a range of mother and baby titles.

Expert contributors

Zita West

Fertility and Pregnancy expert Zita West is a practicing midwife, acupuncturist and nutritional advisor. She is the founder of ‘The Zita West Clinic' – London's leading clinic specialising in integrating complementary therapies into mainstream medicine for fertility, IVF support, and pregnancy. Therapies include nutrition, acupuncture, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), fertility counselling, hypnotherapy, breathing/relaxation and massage.

Zita is a regular speaker at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and has also contributed a chapter to the RCOG handbook. For more information see www.zitawest.com