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Lesson 1

Why Nutrition Matters

With every pregnancy, there's a standard bit of advice for what mothers-to-be should put in their bodies. Take prenatalvitamins. Avoid caffeine. Try not to eat too much junk. Avoid raw cheeses and cold lunch meats. Don't drink alcohol.Everyone knows nutrition matters.But these bits of advice all tell us how to avoid devastating deformities and abnormalities. The prenatal vitamins are sothat your baby doesn't get rickets or spina bifida. Avoiding alcohol keeps your baby's appearance and developmentnormal so that she doesn't get fetal alcohol syndrome. Avoiding raw cheeses and cold lunch meats keep you fromcontracting listeria and the host of potentially deadly problems that can go with it if you're pregnant.Is it such a stretch to imagine that nutrition can do more than just prevent these tragedies? If really poor nutrition cancause the facial abnormalities associated with fetal alcohol syndrome, is it such a stretch to imagine that really excellentnutrition can cause perfectly proportioned faces?

Fetal Alchol Syndrome Face Eskimo Baby Face

Have you ever stopped to think about what a perfectly proportioned facecould mean for your baby?

Facial Structure Implications

High cheekbones, wide dental archesPlenty of room for all teeth.Everything grows in straight with nocrowding. No need for braces!
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Spacious sinus cavity Plenty of room for drainage down theeustachian tube. No ear infections,sinus infections, and fewer colds withless congestion!

Well-spaced eyes Eyes grow to proper shape because

they have plenty of room. Thismeans no near or far sightedness (noneed for glasses!).

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Nutrition has far reaching implications for fertility, your pregnancy & birth experiences,and your child's long-term health.

Have you heard about epigenetics?

Thanks to the publicity surrounding the human genome project, most of us think we know something about genetics.However, genetic science, like nutritional science, is still in its infancy. Until recently, for example, we used to think ofgenes as set in stone. You either had good genes or bad genes, and they determined whether or not you would getbreast cancer, have crooked teeth, or get an astigmatism in your middle age. Modern genetic research has shown usotherwise. It turns out these things are more heavily influenced by nutrition yours, your parents, and yourgrandparents.Now, rather than talking about whether or not you have a particular gene, genetic scientists talk about how the genesyou have are expressed. The study of how inherited genes are turned on and turned off is called epigenetics.Epigenetics proves that the expression of our genes isn't set in stone. What we eat as adults can change our currenthealth & fitness levels. But we're limited. Once we're adults, for example, we can't change the shape of our face.Genetics are most malleable when we're in the womb and early childhood. That's yet one more reason why nutritionduring pregnancy matters!In one of the more exciting parts of this emerging science, we've discovered that generational nutrition can affectepigenetics. Dr. Cate Shanahan, author ofDeep Nutrition, likes to call this genetic momentum. We all inherit aparticular genetic momentum from the generations gone before us. Did your parents eat a nutrient-dense diet? Their

parents? If yes, then you've got a lot of genetic momentum going for you! You could probably be a lot more lenient withyour diet and experience no ill effects until much later in life, if at all. But what if your parents had poorer nutrition, andtheir parents, and so forth? What if you were born with a genetic momentum that was more like genetic inertia? In thatcase, you may have come into this life with a lot of genetic hurdles, but that doesn't mean you should give up! It tookdecades, and possibly lifetimes, to give you the genetic momentum you currently have. Should you be surprised that itmight take years, even decades, of eating to reverse that momentum before you start to see radical changes? The goodnews is that your nutrition now is an investment in future generations your children, your children's children.

Food for thought.Think about the implications of this! Think about the people you know who obviously have a lot of genetic momentumand those who have very little of it. How does this make you feel? What are you going to do about it?

Lesson 2

He Said, She SaidIn the course of my lifetime, I've seen a myriad of wildly contradicting nutritional advice given by so-called experts.At various times, we've been told that a high-fat diet will kill you. Translation: we all need to eat boneless, skinlesschicken breasts and avoid red meat like the plague. The low-fat nutritional mantra created a sea of accommodatingfood products. You can now by no-fat sour cream. Tell me. How is that food even possible, given that cream is by


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its very definition the fat of the milk?

Now nutrition scientists are backtracking on the low-fat dogma. Turns out, your body needs a lot more fat forproper neurological and hormonal functioning than previously thought. If it doesn't get the fat in your diet, then itcreates its own saturated fat from the carbohydrates you eat. But counting on eating enough carbohydrates tosatisfy your inner fat cravings has a downside. It turns out that too many refined flours and sugars (the main sourcefor carbohydrates for the average eater) lead to long-term metabolic dysfunction like weight gain, fatty liverdeposits, and ultimately diabetes. So, doctors are now jumping off the low-fat bandwagon, instead insisting that we

eat "good fats" in moderation.

I also remember when egg yolks were demonized because of their cholesterol content. That was back whenpeople thought that too much cholesterol in the diet led to heart disease. (Yet another theory that's been debunkedin the wake of recent nutrition science.) Now, doctors are telling us that yolks are just about the best and onlysource ofcholine -- an absolutely essential nutrient whose deficiency in modern diets is linked to the onset ofdiabetes.

And the latest major nutrient to be demonized are carbohydrates -- all of them. We have the Atkins diet and low-carb weight loss plans to thank for that. No matter whether they come from beautiful tropical fruits or starchy tuberslike potatoes. Carbs are evil. (Or so "they" say.)

It's just about time for protein to be maligned. Oh wait! That already happened. In some of the first nutrition scienceever done, John Harvey Kellog (the inventor of carbohydrate rich breakfast cereal) believed that pathogenicbacteria produce toxins during the digestion of protein that poison the blood. So he and other nutrition scientists

advocated an extraordinarily low-protein, high-fiber diet for optimal health.

Who can you believe?When it comes to nutrition science, we're a blur of contradictions. There are studies published in academic journalstouting just about everything. I've read scientific studies that demonstrate that saturated fat in combination withconjugated linoleic acid (which is found only in grass-fed ruminants, like cows) will radically reduce risk of heartdisease, while at the same time a different article in the same journal says that eating meat will kill you.

So, who can you believe?

Which expert should you trust?

May I submit a premise that's a little bit "out there"?

I don't think we should be making our dietary decisions based on the advice of so-called"experts." Nutrition science is still a young science, still in its infancy. We're still discovering new nutrients weknew absolutely nothing about previously! We're still learning about the way these nutrients work together, stilllearning about their complex relationships both within the food itself and within our bodies.

In the next lesson, you're going to see a video I produced for one of my online classes in which Michael Pollan(author ofThe Omnivore's Dilemma) talks about all of this and more. You'll see why I think we need to snub ournoses at the diet dictocrats. And, you'll be introduced to the underlying premise behind how I make all my foodchoices.

Stay tuned!

Food for thought.Have you or someone you loved ever fallen prey to the latest nutritional whim? What was that like? What did you(or they) eat? Did you (or they) every change their minds about what food was "healthy"? What brought about thischange?

Lesson 3


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Avoiding the Perils of Nutritionism

We need to shift our focus away from nutrients and towards food in order to understand the effects nutrition hason health. Why? Because whole foods are so much more complex than nutritional science can understand.Focusing too narrowly on nutrients has obscured the true value of eating Real Food.

And, as Michael Pollan argued in his latest book,In Defense of Food, nutritionism (the reductive way weretempted to think about food in terms of nutrients) is a boon to Industrialized Food:No idea could be more sympathetic to manufacturers of processed foods, which surely explains why they havebeen so happy to jump on the nutritionism bandwagon. Indeed, nutritionism supplies the ultimate justification forprocessing food by implying that with a judicious application of food science, fake foods can be made even morenutritious than the real thing.In the opening chapter of her newest book (Real Food For Mother And Baby), Nina Planck makes a similar point:Nutritionism has been good for the food companies and supplement sellers ready to profit from government-approved health claims. Orange juice with added calcium and chocolate with added probiotics would not exist ifnot for the nearly universal acceptance of nutritionism. But it has not been noticeably good for our health.She then takes it a step further, to show just how ridiculous nutritionism can be when we jump on that bandwagon.However, you dont have to count calories, grams of saturated fat, milligrams of vitamin E, micrograms of folicacid, or jillibeters of anything else. I never do. It would be downright wacky to create shopping lists of nutrients.(Sweetheart, Im pregnant! Dont forget complex carbohydrates, lauric acid, and betanine.) As a nutrition geek, Ihave a basic understanding of the major nutrients and a few minor ones, but I am still firmly in favor of the tangiblematerial formerly known as food. In our house we call it real food. Its good for you. Its good for babies. Its goodfor everybody.Why should we focus on whole foods as theyve traditionally been eaten? Because if the scientific study of nutritionhas taught us anything, its that whole, real foods have a complex relationship of nutrients both within themselves(a carrot is more than beta-carotene, a tomato more than lycopene) and with the other foods we serve them with.Nina makes this point in Chapter Two The Fertility Diet:Another reason to eat whole foods is that many nutrients work together. Sperm health improves dramaticallywhen vitamins A and E are eaten together, probably because E prevents oxidation of A. You need vitamin C toabsorb iron, and saturated fats extend the use of omega-3 fats. There are countless relationships like this innutrition. There is no need to remember them. Just eat whole foods in their natural state and in classiccombinations, such as leaves with olive oil, or fish with butter, and youll get everything you need. I couldnt agree more. Even though I study nutrition and am forced to speak about the wonders of certain foods interms of nutrients, I dont want any of you to get the wrong idea.Although Im glad that nutritional science can help me understand exactly why coconut oil is a great fat, or whygrass-fed beef is a healthy food choice, thats not why I eat these foods.I eat these foods because theyre Real Food. They taste great. I loved how Nina Planck defined Real Food: Its

old and its traditional.So simple, really! This is food that your great grandmother would have recognized as food. This is food that hasbeen eaten or prepared this way for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Watch the video.This video is one of many offered in my in-depth, 12 week long online courseon nutrition for fertility, pregnancy,breastfeeding, and a baby's first foods. (That e-course, by the way, is also calledBeautiful Babies!)

Before you can watch the video, you'll be prompted for a password.

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Food for thought.What is nutritionism? When the public focuses on nutritionism, who benefits? How? Why? Who suffers? How?Why? Do you think fake foods can be made better than the foods they imitate? Why? Why not?

Lesson 4
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Traditional Cultures Can Teach Us

Yesterday, we learned that we needed to chuck nutritionism at the door and instead focus on eating real food. Buteating to increase fertility is about more than just opting out of industrial fake food. It's about more than just eating

real food.

It's about learning from the wisdom of successful traditional cultures.

As we learned in the last lesson, nutrition science is a young science. Nutrition scientists often give uscontradictory advice and fail to see the big picture. That's not to say there's no place for science, but simplythat there's an even bigger place for the weight of history . After all, women have been reproducing foranywhere between 7,000 and 77,000 generations on this planet (depending on whose science you believe). Couldwe have gotten this far if there was something intrinsically wrong with the way we historically ate?



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Did you know?

Did you know that if you follow a traditional fertility diet, you can...

reduce your risk of miscarriage by 640%?

reduce your risk of premature birth by 315%?

reduce birth defects by 1602%?

reduce infertility in nearly 80% of all cases?

prevent morning sickness, stretch marks, and swelling during pregnancy?

It's not enough to eat a "good" diet of "healthy" foods! Nor is it enough to just start eating foods that promote fertilityand health.

Many industrial foods actually repress fertility (like soy and MSG). Even many so-called health foods (likeflax) counter fertility and pregnancy hormones.

Plus, when people say they've eliminated processed foods from their diet, I've found that means different things todifferent people. For some people, it means that they gave up diet-sodas in favor of real sugar-sweetened ones.For others, it means that absolutely nothing (and I mean NOTHING) goes into their bodies that they did not cookfrom scratch themselves. For yet others, it means that they stopped eating fast food and buying potato chips, butstill eat boxed whole grain cereals in the morning with 2% milk.

No, what you need is an in-depth knowledge of successful, traditional fertility diets. (And how to apply thosedietary norms to your own food choices so that you're eating foods you love without sacrificing nutrition.)
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In your next lesson, you'll learn about one of the single most important dietary changes you can make in yourjourney towards eating a traditional fertility diet.

Food for thought.Do you think it's possible in our day and age to eat a diet like traditional cultures? Why? Why not? Think abouteverything you eat & drink in a typical day. Now, compare this to the common principles of traditional diets found inSally Fallon Morell's segment of the video above as your guide. How does your diet measure up? What sorts ofthings are you resolved to improve, if any?

Lesson 5

What should you change first?

Did you know that your brain is 65% fat? That fat and cholesterol are the building blocks ofallyour hormones?That eating a low-fat diet makes you 85% more likely to be infertile?

Perhaps the single most important thing a woman can change in her diet to increase her fertility is to avoid low-fatfoods in favor of their real, authentic, high-fat counterparts.

Drink 2% milk? Switch to whole milk. Eat low-fat margarine? Switch to butter. Eat "lite" ice cream? Switch to a full-fat Haagen Dazs.

In successful traditional cultures, people ate a wide variety of diets. The Kitavans of Papau New Guinea favor ahigh-carb diet where 80% of their calories come from sweet potatoes. The Inuit favor a high-fat diet where roughly80% of their calories come blubber. And, of course, there are a variety of cultures that ate a wide combination ofeverything in between.

That said, one thing they all had in common was that they didn't fear natural fats. When they ate fat, it wasalmost entirely saturated and mono-unsaturated fats. These traditional fats came in the form of fat from wild, grass-

fed, or pastured animals including cattle, seafood, hogs, and poultry. It also came in the form of ancient vegetablefats like olive oil, coconut oil, and palm oil.

You know where it didn't come from? Industrial seed-based "vegetable oils" like corn oil, soybean oil, safflower oil,and canola oil.



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What should you eat instead?In thefull version of my Beautiful Babies e-course, I combine videos with a lesson workbook and handouts to giveyou a full, multimedia learning experience. One of those handouts serves up two simple charts on what healthyfats are and how they've traditionally been used.

You can download this handout here. (The handout is a .pdf so you will needAcrobat Readerto view it.)

Let that handout be your guide to using healthy fats & oils in your kitchen.

Food for thought.When were modern vegetable oils invented? How were they received by the public? What changed to make themso popular? Name some of the ways that modern vegetable oils are dangerous to you and your baby.

Lesson 6

Switching to healthier fats is the first in many steps towards transitioning to a traditional fertility diet. With that one

simple change, you can see radical improvement in your fertility.

But, that's not the only positive change you'll experience if you start eating in accordance with traditional fertility

principles. In my own case, I completely avoided stretch marks, morning sickness, swelling, and vericose

veins after I changed my diet for the better. (I've been pregnant three times so far -- once without following the

traditional fertility diet and twice with following it.)

In this lesson, I want you to open your eyes to the possibilities. You already know that nutrition matters. You already

know that what you eat when pregnant can affect your baby's future health. You've hopefully even learned a thing or

two about how traditional cultures ate so that you can begin opting out of the industrial food system.

Now, I want you to take this one step further and realize the full impact that embracing a traditional fertility diet could

have on your health, fertility, and pregnancy.

Anything is possible.

Each weeks lesson in my full Beautiful Babiesonline course features a positive birth story. In the following excerpt fromone of the first lessons, Angelina shares how sheprevented stretch marks with nutrition. And not only that, she wascarrying twins!

In our culture, we accept stretch marks as a given. Were told by our OBGYNs that our skin is either elastic, or it isnt. If

its elastic, you get fewer stretch marks. If its not elastic, you get a belly full of them. And, were told most women will

get stretch marks, no matter what they do to try to prevent them.Well guess what?You can prevent stretch marks. Wanna know how? By increasing the elasticity of your skin! Andthats done through (you guessed it!) a nutrient-dense traditional fertility diet.In the following excerpt from Angelinas story, youll get a tale of two pregnancies. In the first, she was young, practicedpoor nutrition, had massive amounts of stretch marks, and had a rocky birth that ended with her daughter in the NICUfor 10 days. In the second, she was 15 years older, pregnant with twins, and had been eating well for a number ofyears. Her full story is 7 pages long, beautiful, and details the wisdom she accumulated through the birth of 4 children.The full story is the featured birth story for the first lesson of my full Beautiful Babies online course.I have had four babies: two hospital births and two in a birth center. Of the two hospital births, one was an intervention-laden OB assisted birth and the other was a natural midwife assisted birth. The two in the birth center were twins, bornnaturally with the assistance of several midwives.
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My first birth was one month before my 20th birthday. I was young and clueless about nutrition. I enjoyed the freedomto satisfy my pregnancy cravings at whim, which included a lot of junk food. A big bowl of Cocoa Puffs was a fairlytypical meal for me. When my water broke three weeks early (poor nutrition!), I went to the hospital. I knew nothingand submitted to every order my OB gave. Since I had not started labor on my own, I was given Pitocin. Thecontractions started very quickly. I had never experienced pain of this kind in my life. Every 2 minutes for 14 hours, Ihad violent contractions, the kind I can now only liken with those a woman has in transition, and honestly, none in mysubsequent pregnancies were ever as brutal as those Pitocin contractions were. The saddest thing to me is that as awoman, those contractions were more than I could take, but what about the baby who is being wracked from every

side, for what must feel like an eternity? Knowing what I know now, I would never again submit myself or my baby tosuch torture. To finish the story, after several hours I was given an epidural and the rest of labor was easy for me.After many hours, I was told that I would most likely have to have a c-section since I wasnt dilating as they had hoped.Thankfully, though, at the 14 hour point, I managed to dilate and efface enough to deliver on my own. I couldnt feel mylegs or hips, so pushing was challenging, but I did it. I was given the usual episiotomy (thankfully not as routine thesedays) and then had to be sewn back up (crudely) after the birth.Fifteen years and another child later, I found out that I was expecting again twins. I found that carrying twins wasmuch more difficult than carrying one baby. Actually, I didnt know I was carrying two babies until my first midwifeappointment when I was four months along. THAT was the surprise of my life! Thankfully, I found an amazing midwife(we had only moved to Texas the month before I got pregnant) who would support me in having a truly natural (nobodypushing meds and IVs) birth. She told me on that first visit that sufficient protein intake is one of the most importantthings I can do to grow big, healthy babies (and strong bags of waters). A minimum of 150 grams per day was mygoal. By this time in our lives, I knew about raw milk, pastured eggs and grass-fed beef (all organic, of course!), soeating well was simply a part of my life. Eating this much protein was not, but I made it my greatest goal. As thebabies grew, in fact, and took up all of the space in my abdomen, it was all I could do to eat this much protein every

day. But I did!Thankfully, I was able to give birth to the twins naturally in a birth center assisted by midwives. Julia was 6 lbs 3 oz andAnnelise was 7 lbs 7 oz (wow!). Here I had been nervous that they would be 2 or 3 lbs since they were born at 37weeks! Eating all that protein really paid off! These were healthy babies, thank God. And I am one richly blessedmommy!With my first pregnancy, although I only gained 25-30 lbs (standard for me during pregnancy, with one baby anyway!),my breasts and thighs were riddled with stretch marks. However, with my second and third pregnancy, even afterhaving twins and growing an enormous belly, I never got a single stretch mark. Good nutrition is key!And just to cement my stretch mark comment, here is a picture of me at the end of the pregnancy. I still marvel! Thehuman body is amazing! Blessings, Angelina :)

Want to know more about which foods can help increase your skins elasticity? (Hint: foods high in collagen,Vitamins A C & E, and balanced in Omega 3:6 ratios). You can get the full scoop on which foods are rich in thesenutrients inside the full, paid version of myBeautiful Babies Online Course. Well cover preventing stretch marks inLesson 5 when we cover the Traditional Fertility and Pregnancy Diet.
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But, but, but!We all know someone who had a horrendous pregnancy diet full of junk food, but didn't get any stretch marks at all!

And what about the mother who ate perfectly -- completely in accordance with traditional fertility diets -- and actually

didget stretch marks?

Remember what we talked about in Lesson 1? Epigenetics. Particularly, we highlighed the concept ofgenetic

momentum. We are all quite unique, each with a very individual medical and nutritional history. If generations of your

family have been severely nutrient deprived there is a possibility that you may be able to reduce the severity of -- but

not completely prevent -- stretch marks and other so-called "normal" pregnancy maladies like morning sickness,

swelling, and vericose veins.

It's also possible to eat all the best foods, but still be nutrient-deprived because of poor digestion. (That is, after all, why

so many go on gut-healing diets like theGAPS Diet.)

It's possible to "do all the right things" and still have bad things happen. What I can say with surety is that if you adopt

the principles of a traditional fertility diet, you'll be putting yourself in the lowest risk categories for any

number of problems. And that's a very, very good thing!

What about fertility?

The good news is that couples who switch to traditional fertility diets (let's not leave the men out of this, since roughly

40% of all infertility has to do with the male) experience a noticeable increase in their fertility.

Here, one of my first students, KattarinaS shares her exuberance:

After trying for so long, Im finally pregnant! We had just about given up and were talking about what we would and

wouldnt do if it happened by March, given that I am 37 and he is 38. Then last week I was pretty sure it hadnt

happened big boobs, cranky, face breaking out, achy in the abdomen, so I figured my period would come right on

schedule on the 30th day like it has for months. 30th day nothing. 31st day still nothing. so on the 32nd day, I

took a home test and surprise! Pregnant. Followed up with a lab test at work (Im in the Army) and yup, still pregnant

LOL. Never thought Id ever have a child it has never been part of my vision for myself until very, very recently. So

this will be quite an adventure!

And another student, Gia, wrote this when faced with wrapping up her final lesson:

I'm so sad that the class is coming to an end, but so glad that I participated! I wanted to let you know that I am 6

weeks pregnant! I know I wouldn't be where I am today without the real food journey I've been on the last 2 years. I

feel even better prepared now thanks to the class - especially on what foods to feed my little one when they arrive. I've

been feeling great - no morning sickness or stomach problems so far, which I am so grateful for given my 22 year

history of Crohn's Disease. My ob and primary doctor are thrilled with my progress and my chiropractor did a few

gentle adjustments today to help with some minor back discomfort. I feel like I'm on a great road so far!

Food for thought.If my basic premise is right and a traditional fertility diet really can help you increase your fertility, have a happierpregnancy, and give birth to a healthier baby, would you be willing to give it a try?

Are you willing to learn how successful traditional cultures nourished their fertile couples? How they fed their babies?
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Are you willing to embrace a more alternative (and dare I say natural) way of coping with pregnancy and birth?

Lesson 7

Traditional Fertility DietsIn the video below, you'll be introduced to traditional fertility diets from around the world. You'll also learn abouthow a person with typical Western tastebuds and food sensibilities can translate a traditional fertility diet intomodern life.

The video is one of many which students get when they enroll in the paid version of myBeautiful Babies OnlineCourse.

Before you can watch the video, you'll be prompted to enter a password.

http://vimeo.com/39032259Today's password is: Wisdom

You will need the latest version of Adobe Flash Player in order to view the video. You can download Adobe FlashPlayerhere.

So, what now?If eating according to traditional wisdom sounds intimidating, you're not alone. These traditional cultures get alltheir animal food from wild or pasture-raised sources. Do you know where to find authentically pasture-raisedmeats, eggs, and dairy near you?

They also ate living food like raw milk and sauerkraut. (Sadly, today's sauerkraut is nothing more than cabbage ina vinegar brine. Even if it's been naturally fermented with nothing but salt, it's still been pasteurized and hot waterbath canned so that it's basically dead. Living, traditional sauerkraut is rich with beneficial, probiotic bacteria.) Doyou know how to find and make these naturally fermented, probiotic-rich, living foods?

And, obviously, traditional cultures ate a diet that was completely uninfluenced by industrial food production. Doyou know how to navigate your pantry and spot the hidden sources of MSG, corn, or soy? Do you know whenyou're eating genetically modified foods, orwhy you'd want to avoid them? How about refined flours, sugars,and oils?

If I may, I'd like to take a moment to tell you about my Beautiful Babies Online Course. The e-course offers 12 in-depth lessons (each lesson covers even more material than this entire week's mini e-course!) The lessonsfeature videos, workbooks, and reading materials to equip you to have the happiest pregnancy and healthiest babypossible.

What will you learn?

Why soy can prevent pregnancy

How to successfully breastfeed your baby, and why it's so important

What to do if breastfeeding doesn't work for you (and it's not commercial formula!)

Why babies shouldn't eat cereal (they can't digest it!)
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How and when to introduce baby's first foods

How you can avoid ADD, autism, and allergies.

How to treat infections while pregnant without resorting to antibiotics or risky over the counter

medications.

How you can have a pain free birth without pain meds or an epidural.

How to make these changes in affordable, realistic ways.

In short, we cover absolutely everything you could possibly want to know about nutrition for fertility, pregnancy,

breastfeeding, and a baby's first foods.

If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, why not go check out the e-coursefor more

information?

There's a video to watch, an extensive FAQ page, and a course schedule that breaks down the specifics of what

you'll learn in each lesson.

Click here to learn more about the Beautiful Babies Online Course.

Food for thought.I'll leave you witht he same questions I left you with yesterday.

If my basic premise is right and a traditional fertility diet really can help you increase your fertility, have a happierpregnancy, and give birth to a healthier baby, would you be willing to give it a try?

Are you willing to learn how successful traditional cultures nourished their fertile couples? How they fed theirbabies?

Are you willing to embrace a more alternative (and dare I say natural) way of coping with pregnancy and birth?
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