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Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods |  | Author: Nina Planck
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1596913940
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.242
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ASIN: 1596913940
Publication Date: March 31, 2009
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Following the success of Real Food, Nina Planck’s Real Food for Mother and Baby explains why real food is better for woman and child. Nina Planck, one of the great food activists, changed the way we view old-fashioned foods like butter with her groundbreaking Real Food. T hen she got pregnant. Never one to accept conventional wisdom blindly, Nina found the usual advice about pregnancy and baby food riddled with myths and misunderstandings. In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why many modern ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded and why traditional foods are best. While Nina can be controversial—her op-ed in the New York Times on vegan diets for infants was one of the paper’s most e-mailed articles— she’s no contrarian. Readers applaud her candor; they also trust her research and welcome her advice. Nina’s basic premise hasn’t changed—whole foods are best—but some of the details are surprising. Pregnant women need meat and salt, not iron supplements. Nursing will be easier if you act like the mammal you are. Delaying the introduction of certain solid foods doesn’t prevent allergies. Cereals are not the best foods for tiny eaters; meat and egg yolks are better. From conception to two years, the body’s overwhelming needs are for quality fat and protein, not for carrots and low-fat dairy. Even as she casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom, Nina is reassuring. She shows you how to keep your baby healthy on good, simple food. Real Food for Mother and Baby will be the new classic on eating for two.
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 good information August 16, 2009
KayRivera (El Centro, CA United States)
I'm please with the helpful information, but it causes me to freak out, considering I don't meet the standards, nor do I ever think I will. I'm a "worry-wort".
So, people that don't worry easily, like me, should enjoy this just fine.
 A must for any Mom at any stage August 14, 2009
Lynn Flanagan-Till (Denver, CO)
I got an advanced copy of this book to review last Friday and honestly didn't expect it to be such an enjoyable fast read. I wish that I had many copies of Real Food for Mother & Baby to give to anyone that is thinking about getting pregnant or newly pregnant. Planck breaks down the often overwhelming platter of prenatal nutrition into an easily understandable and delicious bite. She explains often murky and confusing topics such as eating fish during pregnancy with ease and offers charts that I wish midwives and doctors would copy and hand out frequently. There were a handful of points that I could have taken or left, and this is definitely not for the hard-line vegan (or maybe it is), but overall it is a book that I am happy to add to my library.
Planck extols the virtues of healthy fats, raw milk, and an attainable/low stress diet for Mothers at any point during the childbearing year, let alone anybody at any age. I was happily reminded of past research that I had read, and learned some new interesting tidbits as well, but mostly when I put down the book I had a warm fuzzy feeling and a huge craving for salmon on top of something drenched in butter.
Very informative and honest August 7, 2009
D. Plaistowe (CA, USA)
I enjoyed Nina's Real Food book, but I think this one is even better. I love her honesty and openness, and how she uses her personal experiences to illustrate her points. It is also good plain common sense, and I wish doctors recommended that all prospective parents read this book.
Show This Book To Your Midwife or Doctor July 29, 2009
M. Desrocher
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
The book begins with Nina defining what real food is. She says, "My definition of real food is based on science, but it's not meant to be technical... Here goes: Real Food is old and it's traditional." What Nina thinks is real, is what humans have eaten since the Stone Age. Fish, fowl, insects, eggs, leaves, nuts and berries.
Real food is a mixture of science and Nina's life as a mother. It includes witty humor and raw emotion. Here's a chapter by chapter summary to give you a better idea of why I recommend this book.
In the first chapter, she delves into science on fat, cholesterol, coenzyme Q-10.
She talks about how she grew up on a farm, and got real milk. Real milk, is raw. It isn't pasteurized, homogenized, and comes from cows that eat grass. Real meat comes from an animal that eats its natural diet, it doesn't have hormones and antibiotics. Real fish is not farm raised. It is wild. (Nina also recommends fish oil if you don't like fish).
Real fruit and vegetables are heirloom, organic, or naturally grown. Preferably they come from the farmer's market.
Nina offers us some practical advice, "People worry too much about how to cook vegetables." Real fat is fried chicken, buttered toast and whole milk. Rightfully Nina tells us about the harm of fake fats, industrial fats such as corn, safflower, sunflower and soybean oils.
Nina is a fan of moderate amounts of alcohol. So she did forget to add "Real Beer" and "Real Wine" to her first chapter. :)
Chapter 2 is the Fertility Diet
She explains how up until recently, grandmothers, and aunts new good food advice for expectant moms. But today they have "dropped the ball" on fertility diets. She likens official government advice to "the Dark Ages."
Nina introduces four fertility rules and explains them in detail.
1. Be and Omnivore
2. Fat and Fertility - basically fat is good
3. The Seafood Principle (yes, we should eat fish)
4. Don't Eat Carbage (white-flour, sugar, polished rice, modern vegetable oils)
Nina gives us tips on coming off the birth control pill and mercury fillings. Nina has a handy chart of specific vitamins that are good for fertility and foods where they can be found. Liver, milk, meat, clams, fish, oysters, and eggs are all on the list. She explains the importance of vitamins A, E, D, and K. The fat-soluble vitamins. And gives tips for men as well. More liver, nuts, fruit, and vegetables. Nina then gives some personal anecdotes and more science behind her assertions.
Chapter 3 - Forty Weeks.
"Lots of actions, all of it inside." writes Nina. This is about the first trimester, second, and third trimester of pregnancy. She talks about hormones, high fat foods, eating more beef, her food diary. Nina prefers the Adelle Davis's diet over the suggestions of the Weston A. Price foundation. She finds that butter, eggs, and seafood are the best foods for the first trimester.
Here you get more about wine and pregnancy, stories about Nina's life and how to deal with NVP (Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy)
Chapter 4 - Nursing
Nina had a very emotional time after her first son was born. That is great to hear of a women sharing her personal raw feelings with the world. Nina's "Pro Life" point of view is on the importance of probiotics. She sites several examples why breastmilk is best, and gives dietary advice from Papua New Guinea. She advises new mom's to just relaxed and not scrutinize every crumb that is going into their mouths.
Nina even had her breastmilk tested at a laboratory. And tells us of Le Petit Singly, a cheese made from human milk. Nina is very concerned that trans fats stay out of the milk. She believes that fish fat is the queen of the fats. DHA is being used up by the breastfeeding infant. The chapter has many reminders how brestmilk is the best.
Nina recommends against childbirth preparation classes, which doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Then she talks about her own perspective on breastfeeding. Here Planck describes traditional wisdom this reminded me of Nagel's highly acclaimed Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6), of breastfeeding on cue. Because human babies, are "Just like monkeys," in relation to breastfeeding. She supports breastfeeding as a mother's "full time job."
Nina gives great advice on feeding baby foods. Giving them real foods, just in small amounts. First food suggestions for babies include raw milk, cheese and yogurt - these are all excellent whole food ideas. Nina rightly states that "cereal is good" for you is a myth and recommends instead, bone broth for babies. Nina of course loves Real Raw milk for her little one. She then tells and amusing story of how she got allot of heat for an article against veganism for children. It's an interesting story. The point she is trying to make, is veganism isn't good for children. Case closed.
There is alot of story on how she came to making decisions about the food she feeds her son Julian. The stories include a struggle with a dumb doctor who tells her to stop breastfeeding. Nina is a big fan of cod liver oil. In the end, Nina talks about her small farm dreams. This is an excellent book. It's also worth mentioning that there is another book that covers child raising in more detail, as well as goes into great depth on healthy foods, nutrition and schooling for parents who want to have happy and healthy babies, it's called, Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) Real food and Healing Our Children are 5 stars in my book.
Heaven Sent July 11, 2009
Glacier Mom
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hip, witty, smart, "Real Food for Mother and Baby" is just the thing to mainstream Weston A. Price's brilliant research while distancing wacky, New Age elements one sees in lovely-but-odd books like Nagel's "Healing Our Children." A primary strength of the book is the authorial voice, yet I almost couldn't get past the speed bump of the intro; the author's winsome, youthful, breezy take on mothering at the one-year-plus mark prompted a cynical response from me: "Oh, yeah? Write us again after the second one is born, and you're still in your bathrobe at noon, blah-blah-blah." "Now I understand. Motherhood changes you," she writes. No, no, you don't understand, you're still going for jogs and writing and going on book tours. Some of us have difficult children, and I was never able to resume my work (graduate fellowship at Stanford) or leave my first daughter, colicky, sensitive & acutely prone to separation anxiety from age 2 mos. on, with a sitter. My point is that it's like reading a fresh and lively blog, as opposed to a seasoned life's work, but Planck's done her research.
I followed the Weston A. Price Foundation's dietary protocol during my second pregnancy, meaning that, instead of popping a prenatal vitamin, I consumed vast amounts of raw milk and raw dairy, raw egg smoothies, lard, grss-fed beef, dessicated liver, high-vitamin cod liver oil to 20,000 i.u.s vitamin A, coconut oil, kombucha and other lacto-fermented products for B vitamins, etc. My second daughter was born at home after 4 hours of labor, and like Planck, I eschewed genetic screening of any kind, despite my materna-gravitas status. My daughter is vibrantly healthy, has a super-wide dental palate showing superior bone formation, and my recent lab blood results showed an excellent profile for cholesterol, cardiac function, blood sugar, etc. At some point, the allopathic community will have to recognize the scientific validity of what so many smart, educated mothers are figuring out. My daughter's first foods were mashed egg yolk with sea salt and grated raw liver, homemade chicken stock out of a tea cup, etc., and at age three, she's still nursing. I like the way Planck cooks, which is how I cook, without recipes, just an assemblage of whole ingredients. What I found most fascinating was her discussion of seafood, and I realized I'd been relying on cod liver oil for healthy fats that really can only be assimilated by eating fish; so--to the fish market I go.
Reading Planck's book made me philosophize about the loss of maternal wisdom in our culture, paralleling the diminished nutrient reserves each generation of women has passed on to the next--thus the inheritable miasms. Who will feed me? she asks at one point, a vulnerable nursing mom. I suspect she had good help, since her mother was a pioneer in nutrition. I had to educate my mother, to be directive and explain the sanctity of cooking--as opposed to ordering pizza--to a woman who used to be a gourmet cook but who now, in her 60's, considered popcorn and a glass of wine a complete dinner. My single, childless brother, ironically, demonstrated the greatest empathy in his gift of jars of homemade beef stock, bread from soaked grains, and beef marrow spread on toast. More typical of the American experience was my mother-in-law, who hates to cook and relies heavily on industrialized convenience foods. When she came to visit after the new baby's birth, she was on the Jenny Craig diet and brought her own tiny packets and sachets of "food." She certainly had no intention of shopping, cooking, or cleaning while she stayed, and her fantasy of grandmothering involved putting on her walking shoes and taking the newborn for long stroller rides while chalking up miles on the tachometer. When the newborn objected with dramatic screams, my mother-in-law began to sulk and pout, lying on the couch reading novels like a teenager or chatting on the cell phone endlessly, complaining that she didn't "feel needed." What a tragedy! I am hopeful that books like Planck's will return women to their ancient wisdom and primal source of strength.
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