We at CRE HiPP hope this section offers women, their families and support people useful, practical, evidence-based advice, tools and support about lifestyle health during preconception, pregnancy and beyond.
This section will be updated regularly with timely and topical information. If there is a topic you would like to know more about, please email us: crehipp@monash.edu or chat to us on Facebook or Twitter. We would love to hear from you.
When mothers are supported to be the healthiest they can be during these pivotal life phases, they are better equipped for conception, pregnancy, childbirth and to parent their new baby, due to higher levels of psychological and physical wellbeing. When we get it right for mum, we get it right for their child(ren) and the whole family.
There is no room or tolerance for individual blame in CRE HiPP. There is also no room for stigma. We want people to understand that obesity is not a choice, and the shame, bias and discrimination is not helping anybody, but harming many of us. We applaud and celebrate the diversity of body size and shape that makes women the people they are.
Men are supported in a number of strategies CRE HiPP members are involved in, including:
