Nutrition Coaching

Good nutrition is essential to helping you thrive through every part of life, but especially as you’re trying to concieve, living through pregnancy and birth, and through postpartum recovery. If you have a complex relationship with food, it can be a challenge to make sure you’re nourishing and fueling yourself and baby well. Experiencing the support from our Registered Dietitian, Certified Sports Nutritionist, and Women’s Health Coach, can give you the knowledge, compassion, and empowerment to have a healthy pregnancy. Ann Arbor Birth & Family is thrilled to have Melanie Sulaver, MS, RD, CDN, CISSN as part of our team. She specializes in disordered eating, and amenorrhea / oligomenorrhea in the context of energy deficiency, and is an expert at supporting people through their reproductive journeys.

Private Nutrition Coaching

Everything about private coaching with Mel has been designed to help you succeed. Melanie offers one-on-one coaching for a minimum of three months. This 3 month commitment is necessary to authentically address nutrition changes and is required.

What’s included?

An exploratory call to make sure we’re a good fit for each other (with no commitment)
Initial assessment (usually 1 hour – although I don’t put time restrictions on our sessions) exploring your relationship with food, diet history, health habits, & body image
Weekly (or bi-weekly) coaching sessions establishing progressive and goal oriented nutrition changes
Supplement Recommendations
Text Support

“Mel, I am so grateful to have you! You’re always so gentle and kind and accepting and I appreciate it more than you know. I wish everyone could have a Mel in their life. The world would be a much better place.”

– Jennifer S.

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Ann Arbor Birth & Family provides unparalleled birth and postpartum doula services, birth and early parenting education, and perinatal counseling to empower and instill confidence as you navigate pregnancy, birth, and adjustment to life with your new baby.

WE SERVE

Our professional Ann Arbor doulas and childbirth educators serve the greater Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit areas, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chelsea, Saline, Brighton, Novi, Southfield, Plymouth, Canton, South Lyon, West Bloomfield, Dearborn, Livonia, Royal Oak, Grosse Pointe, and more.

Our doulas provide labor support at locations within a 50 mile radius of Ann Arbor, including but not limited to: University of Michigan Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Henry Ford West Bloomfield, Alternative Birth Care Unit, Ascension Providence Hospital - Southfield Campus, Ascension Providence Hospital - Novi Campus, Royal Oak Beaumont/Karmanos Natural Birth Center, and midwife-attended home births.

we SPECIALIZE IN

The Ann Arbor Birth & Family team specializes in supporting: first time parents, birth over 35, LGBTQ parents, solo parents, adoptive families, surrogacy, natural (medication-free) birth, waterbirth, epidurals, VBAC, high-risk pregnancy, cesarean birth (planned and unplanned), birth after loss, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, PTSD, birth trauma, infertility, bed rest, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and infant care.

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