I LOVE this topic. Before I started getting pregnant, I focused on cleaning up my diet and eating more holistically. I found this cook book/bible of holistic health called “Nourishing Traditions” to guide the way. This led me to groups that did more research and based practices on natives fertility wisdom: not over nursing so woman’s body could heal and refortify for next baby, having a super nutrient dense diet for the year leading up to pregnancy for BOTH female and male — such as high in vit A; spacing babies out between 3-7 years depending on how long the nursing was, what postpartum was like and such in order to ensure mothers body is full of all the goodies needed to produce good/strong/healthy offspring. And that book had a recipe I used to make formula from scratch. My boys are some of the sturdiest, robust and high immune systems I have seen. It seems like again this topic goes right along with reproductive justice that pro-lifers just do not understand. If we want to have true life for generations to come, we need to consider every single aspect of a woman’s life and what she needs in order to produce healthy offspring.
Holli, I’m so grateful you shared this. Your story is such a powerful reminder that maternal health doesn’t start at birth. It starts years before. So much wisdom in what you’ve said about spacing, nourishment, and reclaiming traditions. This is exactly the kind of lived insight that should be shaping innovation.
I LOVE this topic. Before I started getting pregnant, I focused on cleaning up my diet and eating more holistically. I found this cook book/bible of holistic health called “Nourishing Traditions” to guide the way. This led me to groups that did more research and based practices on natives fertility wisdom: not over nursing so woman’s body could heal and refortify for next baby, having a super nutrient dense diet for the year leading up to pregnancy for BOTH female and male — such as high in vit A; spacing babies out between 3-7 years depending on how long the nursing was, what postpartum was like and such in order to ensure mothers body is full of all the goodies needed to produce good/strong/healthy offspring. And that book had a recipe I used to make formula from scratch. My boys are some of the sturdiest, robust and high immune systems I have seen. It seems like again this topic goes right along with reproductive justice that pro-lifers just do not understand. If we want to have true life for generations to come, we need to consider every single aspect of a woman’s life and what she needs in order to produce healthy offspring.
Holli, I’m so grateful you shared this. Your story is such a powerful reminder that maternal health doesn’t start at birth. It starts years before. So much wisdom in what you’ve said about spacing, nourishment, and reclaiming traditions. This is exactly the kind of lived insight that should be shaping innovation.