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Healthy Pregnancy and Lactation Diet and Nutrition

Many groups of Indigenous people were guided by the "great power" to watch what animals ate. We now are being called upon to watch what healthy Indigenous people ate, so that we can have healthy pregnancies and healthy children.

An Unnoticed Tragedy

Daily a profound tragedy plays itself out, unnoticed, our pregnant and lactating mother's are starving for nutrients, and hence, their children are deprived of essential body building factors. This depravation, combined with modern life depleted foods, causes many types of illnesses, and makes our children unfit for life.

Dietary Guidelines Pregnancy and Lactation

Foods to Be Eaten Daily

Activators Daily, Choose One Row*

A. 1.5 teaspoons, a mixture of high vitamin butter oil and high vitamin (or fermented) cod liver oil, best taken 2 or 3 times daily in ½ teaspoon increments and/or
B. 1.5-3 ounces of a grass fed animal liver, or wild fish liver with
1-4 tablespoons of Summer Butter, (deep yellow colored) and/or
C. 1/3 - 3 tablespoons of wild caught fish eggs

2-4+ tablespoons of raw unsalted grassfed butter

16-48+ ounces (2-6+ cups) of whole fat raw grassfed milk; cow, goat or sheep

2-6 whole eggs, from chickens raised on pastures **

2-6 ounces of a very high quality raw, grassfed cheese; cow, goat, or sheep

1-2 tablespoons of organic extra virgin coconut oil

Ample amounts of fresh vegetables and fresh fruits, Dark leafy green vegetables (should be cooked), Carrots, and Fermented Vegetables

6 ounces or more of Bone Broth for trace minerals and gelatin. Examples: chicken stock, fish stock, or beef stock

Consider oily fish or lard daily, for vitamin D

Lacto-Fermented condiments and laco-fermented beverages, such as Sauerkraut and Beet Kvass

Foods to Eat Several Times Per Week

Make sure that you are eating two of these three categories of foods several times weekly,

1. raw grassfed dairy
2. sea food that includes the organs
3. organs of land animals***

Eat fresh wild caught seafood including, shellfish, such as, crab, lobster, shrimp, oyster’s, clams. (From Clean Waters)

Fresh beef or lamb, the muscle meat, raised on a pasture, always consumed with the fat several times per week, cooked medium rare, and/or marinated for several hours and/or eaten in the same meal with bone broth or cooked in a stew. (It is acceptable to eat the organs of beef or lamb and forgo the muscle meat.)

Soaked or Sprouted, freshly ground organic whole grains (must usually undergo at least 7 hours of fermentation)

3-4 ounces fresh grassfed or wild liver, at least once or twice per week (One of the most ideal foods for pregnancy and lactation, learn about the saftey of Vitamin A)

Quinoa, for the time of lactation, (must undergo at least a 12 hour fermentation)

Seaweed – can sometimes be a healthy source of much needed trace minerals. (Seaweed is not a good source of fat-soluble vitamins or activating substances

Strictly Avoid these Modernized Foods

Sugar – White Sugar, Brown Sugar, Organic Sugar, Evaporated Cane Juice, Corn Syrup, Commercial Jams

Flour & Grain Products – White Flour, Wheat Flour, Organic Flour, any unsoaked grain products. Examples: bread, crackers, cookies, doughnuts, breakfast cereals, muffins, pastries, tortillas, bagels, and sandwiches

Hydrogenated Oils - like Margarine, and Low quality vegetable oils, Vegetable Oil, Soybean Oil and Criscto.

Any type of junk, convenience food, or modern fast foods

Coffee, Soft Drinks, Nutrasweet, and anything with artificial flavors, artificial colors, or artificial ingredients

Soymilk, Protein Powder, and Excess Tofu

Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Drugs (including most prescription drugs & vaccines)

Trust Your Instincts During Pregnancy

These are guidelines, not rigid expectations that have to be precisely followed. However I take great effort to avoid the unhealthy foods. Particularly, in the final stages of pregnancy, your appetite might very widely, trust these instincts. After the birth, you may not feel hungry at all, trust that feeling and do not force yourself to eat. Your body may have cravings for certain things, so for example: for two weeks you might eat lots of lamb, and only some fish. Then it could switch, you eat lots of fish, and very little red meat. Overall, try to make sure you are eating a balanced menu as these guidelines suggest, but it may be too rigid for you to try to eat all these foods every single day. Taking a break from certain foods, and eating more of other foods can be balancing.

* Weston Price successfully used the mixture of equal parts high vitamin butter oil and cod liver to improve pregnancy health, to stop tooth decay, and to help heal and regrow bones. These food supplements can be replaced with their equivalent whole food versions, or with a good quantity of fish eggs daily.

** One source suggests eating eggs 5 days on, 2 days off, if you are prone to miscarriage.

***The liver's of small animals, like squirrels and guinea pigs during certain seasons may be used, as well as insects during certain times of the year might count as fourth and fifth categories of food. I do not know what times of the year this would be, but it would be when they are in abundance. I did not list these are foods a majority of us do not eat.

**** Vitamins are not to be obtained from synthetic source

Dietary guidelines adopted from the Weston A. Price Foundation Diet for Pregnancy and Lactation.

Overwhelmed with Animal Foods?

If you have problems physically assimilating all these animal foods products, or if your body does not crave more, than do not eat more. One solution is to have animal proteins and fats frequently, but in smaller portions (1-3 ounces, several times daily). Eating animal proteins with fats consistently, while listening to the body and not consuming excess, in addition to copious amounts of vegetables, will help promote pregnancy and lactation health.

Sources for some Special Foods for Pregnancy and Lactation

High Vitamin Cod Liver Oil: Live Superfoods or Green Pastures (also has fermented cod liver oil).

Cod Liver Oil: Maker's Diet and Carlson's Brand

High Vitamin Butter Oil: Live Superfoods or Green Pastures butter oil is a food based supplement of concentrated spring or summer yellow butter.

Yellow Butter: Anchor Butter, (1-888-869-6455 to find a local Anchor Supplier), Kerrigold Butter, Jana Valley Butter. Local butter's purchased during the spring and summertime when the cows eat rapidly growing grass are available at: www.realmilk.com - a campaign for wholesome real milk. The imported butters should be available from your local natural food store.

Bone Marrow & Grassfed Liver: US Wellness Meats (Get 25% US Wellness Meats with coupon code: USW25) or www.eatwild.com - grass-fed animal food sources.

Fish Eggs: Live Superfoods, sometimes at your local fish merchant, or as various types of caviars from wild fish. The last option is cost prohibitive for most.

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