About

Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Parents, Healthy Children, Healthy Families


Welcome to Beyond Prenatals, where pregnant women, soon-to-be pregnant women, and parents can learn about healthy pregnancies and raising healthy families using food and other healthy behaviors.

I am a Registered Dietitian and Certified Lactation Counselor with a Master's Degree in Public Health. I am an adjunct professor, nutrition and breastfeeding consultant, evidence analyst for the ADA, occasional blogger, and most importantly, a mother of two and a wife. My nutrition specialties include perinatal nutrition, pediatric nutrition,  breastfeeding, and food allergies. I live in New York City.

The goal of Beyond Prenatals is to encourage and empower women and all parents to learn more about nutrition during preconception, pregnancy, and early childhood...and to go "beyond" prenatal vitamins in striving to create healthy families.

Feel free to send me a message at debra@beyondprenatals.com

Debra Waldoks, MPH, RD, CLC


This blog is dedicated to my grandmother who taught me the importance of eating well during pregnancy, feeding children well, and examining health news from multiple perspectives.