What should we eat during preconception, pregnancy and while nursing?
Source
Pasture Raised
Pasture Raised
Wild Caught
Food
Eggs, butter, cream, liver and organ meats
Ducks, geese, chicken and pig fat
Fish eggs, fish livers, fish liver oil, fish and shellfish
Eggs from pastured chickens contain vitamins A and D – eggs are a sacred food in China. A pregnant or nursing woman in China will eat up to ten eggs per day, if she can afford them. The Chinese recognize that eggs are a brain food, ensuring that the child will be very intelligent if he or she gets the nutrients through her mother’s pre-natal diet or through her milk. Sally Fallon Morell, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation explains that "similarly, bear fat was a very important food among the Native Americans. If any couple could not get pregnant, they went on a bear-fat diet for about a month and ate nothing but bear fat. It always worked."
We recommend any couple trying to get pregnant today go on the equivalent of the bear-fat diet – eating lots of the foods in this list, from pasture raised or wild caught sources, before they spend any money on fertility treatments.
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Recommendations
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Foods for fertility: http://nourishedkitchen.com/foods-for-fertility/
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The recommended diet for pregnant and nursing mothers: http://www.westonaprice.org/childrens-health/diet-for-pregnant-and-nursing-mothers
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Frequently asked questions about pregnancy: http://www.westonaprice.org/faq/faq-pregnancy-and-feeding-infants
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For questions about liver and vitamin A, please read: http://www.westonaprice.org/childrens-health/diet-for-pregnant-and-nursing-mothers
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Brand and dosage information for cod liver oil, best taken with high vitamin butter oil: http://www.westonaprice.or g/cod-liver-oil/238-cod-li ver-oil-basics#brands
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All you need to know about the homemade baby formulas if it may be needed: http://www.westonaprice.org/faq/faq-homemade-baby-formula
Prenatal Vitamins
One of our supporters wrote to me for feedback about this particular prenatal vitamin: http://web.me.com/sandrinehahn/DFH-prenatal-pro-packets.pdf and I forwarded the question to Sally Fallon Morell: "We do not recommend prenatal supplements. For starters, this one is calling carotenes vitamin A (which they are not, and can actually be very dangerous), and contains EPA, which interferes with DHA and AA. Pregnant women should be following our dietary guidelines and taking a good quality high-vitamin cod liver oil. http://www.westonaprice.org/cod-liver-oil/238-cod-liver-oil-basics#brands
Best, Sally"
Also, re: vitamins in general: Sally Fallon Morell considers this statement to be "perfect" ...
"I am very careful with multi-vitamin, mineral and amino acid supplements. With the majority of patients, I don’t give it at all. I just tell them to implement the diet fully. Once the diet is fully implemented, the nutritional deficiencies just go away because the body knows what to do with vitamins, minerals and amino acids when they come as food. When they come as supplements the majority are synthetic. They don’t come with the right kind of co-factors, the right kind of friends holding hands, so the body doesn’t recognize them. And for most of the common supplements on the market today, the absorption rate is very low." -- Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, MMedSci (neurology), MMedSci (nutrition) http://www.westonaprice.org/childrens-health/gaps
Multi-vitmains are created "out of context", so to speak -- and we recommend nourishing ourselves with nutrients in their most natural state.
"There is [also] something of a statement here. But we do not recommend multi-vitamins. Sally"
http://www.westonaprice.org/basics/guide-to-superfoods
