Question from Kyle on the live call. “My wife’s chiropractor working with a PT and birth fit assessment. Do you recommend necessary or desired lab panels, work up, tests of the important preconception, prenatal, and postpartum?”
Chris: Absolutely. Basically, we use our case review blood panel that you’d be learning about in the next section of the course for those situations because it casts a really wide net for things that would be of concern for that population.
“How soon would we do this testing postpartum?”
Chris: I’d give it a few weeks unless there’s any reason to do it earlier, like any cause for concern based on how the mother is doing or the baby is doing. It’s important to have them because pregnancy can be depleting, especially if the nutrient status was poor going into pregnancy or intake of nutrients was not ideal or if there was any bleeding. You want to make sure that you’re catching any nutrient deficiencies or other issues like anemia as soon as you can because those will certainly impact both the mother and the developing baby.