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Since the beginning of time, all parents and grandparents knew instinctively what to do to create healthy babies. During the Industrial Revolution, corporations prioritized quantity over quality which included birthing cheap disposable people to expand the work force. It was better for the bottom line to grow workers with mediocre health and then sell back to them drugs and health care plans for profit rather than promote health and well-being. This is the largest moneymaking industry in the world today.
In the 60’s, some dissatisfied young adults began to revolt against this training and began remembering and relearning natural, back to the earth living.
Ida Mae Gaskin (and Dr. Spock) became one of the new authorities on having healthy children as her intentional community, The Farm in Tennessee, experimented with living off the land which included midwifing thousands of babies and training midwives across the country in natural pre-natal care and birthing. This was game changing in the natural birthing sociology.
With the utmost respect, I say thank you. And, unfortunately this movement emphasized vegetarianism and herbalism. This plant-based diet initially produced positive outcomes while rejecting the Standard American Diet in mother and baby health, but in the long-game produced negative outcomes which led Ida Mae on other natural midwives and health practitioners to embrace the medical model of giving drugs, antibiotics, and vaccines to treat symptoms.
Fortunately, leaders like Dr. Mendelsohn, began speaking against the disease producing medical model and promoted food (including animal foods) as medicine along with natural birthing and breast feeding and avoiding doctors and hospitals at all costs. Thank you, Robert!
And wise women leaders like Susan Weed introduced animal products into the diets of her clients along with natural birthing and herbs. Thank you, Susan!!
A resurgence of Weston A. Price, Francis Pottenger, and Viljamur Steffanson’s works moved the needle even more towards animal-based foods highlighting raw animal meats and fats for creating the healthiest babies. Weston A. Price noting that the healthiest babies were created in the Eskimo and the Masai each which consumed almost all their calories in raw animal foods. He also noted that the healthiest babies came from moms and dads eating super-foods (raw shellfish, raw organ meats, and raw dairy) 6-months before conceiving and spacing children 2-3 years apart.
Pottenger in his experiments with mice, cats, dogs, pigs, and humans concluded that the diets of all these species had the best outcomes with at least 50% raw animal products. And, Steffanson having spent 3-years with the Eskimos saw the reversion of scurvy in sailors and observed the healthiest pregnancies, births, and strongest, happiest people who ate solely raw animal products and no salt.
And, in the 2000s, Wise Women’s Herbal Conference began promoting more animal based foods and the GAPS diet even promotes raw meat when symptoms flare. Other contemporary spokespeople on healthy babies like Sally Fallon promote breast milk, raw cow milk, and an animal-food rich diet. The Free Birth Society helps to empower women to birth at home the way God(dess) and Nature intended.
Aajonus, of course, pulled together all these schools of thought and collections of data and research and presents this in a concise and articulate fashion.
What did Aajonus Say About Healthy Babies?
Members can Search : Pregnancy on PrimalDiet.net and it will take you to We Want to Live: Health Methodologies : Opinions & Tips
PREGNANCY, as everyone knows, is the process of growing a child.
How that child grows depends on genetics, what the mother eats, and what drugs the mother takes. Every drug alters the genetic structure or weakens the DNA and RNA of some young cells. Therefore, it is best not to take medication, especially during pregnancy.
The stress factors are tremendous during pregnancy. Not only is the mother responsible for carrying the extra being, her body also feeds the child and discards the child’s wastes. If what the fetus needs is not present and freely available in the lymph and blood of the mother, the placenta calls for and leaches protein and other nutrients from the mother’s cells, via the production of certain hormones. Many women nowadays age 2-8 years with each pregnancy, resulting from the leaching process.
To prove how important utilizable proteins are during pregnancy, take a look at how many women lose muscle tone during and shortly after pregnancy. Muscle tissue is not the only tissue that is leached from the mother if utilizable protein and fat aren’t available in the blood and lymph. Also, glandular, nerve, brain, arterial and bone cells are leached.
Eating plenty of raw meat and fat before and during pregnancy grows a strong healthy child (genetics allowing) and prevents the mother from sacrificing her body for her child.
Nausea during pregnancy indicates that the mother’s system is too acidic and toxic. Eating red meat may cause more nausea and vomiting even if the red meat is raw. Therefore, if experiencing morning sickness, it is best to follow the suggestions in Alkalizing Food, page 178, and eat raw white meat, especially raw fish, and unripe pineapple or other unripe fruit with a raw fat.
Many women who cannot discard the accumulation of wastes – fetal and their own – during pregnancy, usually bloat with fluids, or get fat during or after pregnancy. They retain the wastes within their bodies, bound in difficult-to-discard cooked fat and fluids. Eating plenty of raw fat before and during pregnancy usually prevents bloating and fat retention. However, if bloating or fat retention occurs when eating raw fat, it usually gives women more strength. The fluid and fat can be more readily discarded within months after birthing when fat is eaten raw.
After bathing, daily massaging unheated-above-96° Fahrenheit fermented coconut oil, or peanut oil, or stone-pressed olive oil into thighs, buttocks, hips, abdomen and breasts, reduces or eliminates the formation of stretch marks (scars). Wipe off excess after 15-20 minutes.
What is Aajonus’ Baby Formula?
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Members can Search: Healthy Babies on Primaldiet.net you will find these 3 references in Recipe For Living Without Disease:
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It has been my experience that infants under 1-year old have achieved better health when breast-fed entirely by a mother on a healthy raw animal food diet, especially this Primal Diet™. If the mother is not on a healthy diet, I found that the infant gains better health if fed raw milk from a cow or goat rather than mother’s milk. The determining factor is, who eats more of a balanced raw food diet, the mother or the animal? Generally, I have observed that children over 9 months of age can easily enjoy the following infant formulas/recipes. In many primitive cultures that do not experience disease, an exclusive raw-milk diet for babies up to 2 years of age has proved perfectly healthful. A few tribes breast feed for up to 4 years and have incredibly healthy children.
52 Volume Two the Recipe for Living Without Disease Infant Glandular Booster
8 Servings
- 1 cup organic raw liver
- 1 cup raw milk
- ¼ teaspoon unheated honey
Cut liver into small chunks. Blenderize all ingredients in a 16-ounces jar on high speed for 20-25 seconds. Strain mixture through a strainer or cloth-pouch. Squeeze pouch to speed straining. Use nipple with large hole.
Infant Immune Booster
8 Servings
- 1 cup organic raw liver
- ½ cup raw milk 2 raw eggs
- ¼ teaspoon unheated honey
Cut liver into small chunks. Blenderize all ingredients in a 16-ounces jar on high speed for 20-25 seconds.
Strain mixture through a strainer or cloth-pouch. Squeeze pouch to speed straining. Use nipple with large hole.
The Recipe For Healthy Living & Optimal Recipes! 53
Infant Milkshake
- 2 Servings
- 2 ounces raw milk
- 2 ounces raw cream 1 raw egg
- ¼ teaspoon unheated honey
Blenderize all ingredients together in an 8-ounces jar on medium speed for 5 seconds. No straining is necessary.
Infant Nervous System Booster
8 Servings
- 1 ounce fresh ocean wild-caught raw fish
- 3 tablespoons raw cream
- ¼ cup fresh organic liver
- 2 ounces raw milk
- 1 raw egg
- ½ teaspoon unheated honey
Cut liver and fish into small chunks. Blenderize ingredients in an 8-ounces jar on high speed for 20-25 seconds. Strain mixture through a strainer or cloth-pouch. Squeeze pouch to speed straining. Use nipple with large hole.
A Few More Questions:
Can babies eat fish?
Absolutely, Fish, Shellfish, and organs were the highly sought after super-foods of the traditional cultures Weston A. Price discovered in his research.
What are your thoughts on the Low-Vita-A diets?
Vitamin A supplements can cause deficiencies in Vitamin A because they are isolated, cauterized, toxins. However, in the raw food form, as we mentioned earlier in the works of Price and Steffanson, mothers and infants ate tons of Vitamin-A heavy foods to include shellfish, animal organs such as liver and kidneys from any animal they could hunt (seal, whale, fish, caribou, polar bear, wolf, etc.) and sought after it.
Can babies eat honey?
Babies can eat raw honey from day one and can benefit from the insulin-like enzymes that help remedy pre-diabetes. However, most honey is not raw meaning never artificially- heated above 93 degrees. And, the bees are often fed processed sugar. When the honey is heated or the bees are fed sugar, the honey has now been turned into refined sugar which acts like crack cocaine in the body and is definitely dangerous for babies and adults. Because absolutely raw honey is hard to find, I would test just a small amount on yourself while you are breastfeeding to see how baby reacts, then a small drop in their mouth and see how they react before including it fully in their diet.
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What are your thoughts on Sally Fallon’s Infant Formula Recipe?
It was a good formula back when Weston A. Price was experimenting with Butter Oil and Cod Liver Oil. Back then, Weston Price’s Butter Oil was never heated above 70 degrees before centrifuging. Today, butter oil is pasteurized, even just low-temp pasteurization is 160 degrees, which destroys enzymes. Also, Cod Liver oil was made through natural fermentation. However, today, it is made through solvent extraction or “Proprietary Processes” which are not disclosed and processed Vitamin-E either synthetic or natural is added as a preservative. I would recommenced one of Aajonus’ Infant Formulas that uses only real raw whole foods instead of risking it with one of their supplement companies.
How long should I breast feed?
Most traditional cultures breastfeed for 1-3 years depending on the unique baby’s needs, the family’s needs, and mom’s health. Today’s mom’s are quite depleted of nutrition and breastfeeding takes a big toll on their bodies, therefore, I would recommend, generally, to breast feed for 6-12 months and begin supplementing with raw cow milk and Primal Diet™ infant formulas, along with pâtéd raw meats before and during the weening process.
What causes Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)?
BPAs are major endocrine disruptors and are likely the main cause of cysts and imbalances in the women’s reproductive system. Not to mention the heavy metals in birth control and all the radiation from “health check ups”. Samuel Epstein, the leading researcher on Cancer concluded that tests performed preventatively on women and girls create the very same diseases they are design to detect and prevent.
How do I address painful periods? From We want to Live:
MENSTRUAL CRAMPS are abdominal muscle contractions that sometimes accompany menstruation, and are usually painful. These cramps are directly related to a lack of utilizable proteins in the blood. Either a sufferer is not eating enough meat or she doesn’t digest, assimilate, or utilize cooked meat.
Eating at least 5 raw mushrooms daily for 5 days before menstrual onset with a raw green salad, and eating raw red meat, like tuna, beef, or lamb, usually prevents these cramps. (Raw mushrooms contain enzymes that facilitate protein utilization.) See Premenstrual Syndrome, page 304. Drinking the blended mixture of raw milk and bee pollen, or raw carrot juice and bee pollen relieves pain. See Pain, page 297. For another Pain Formula, see the book The Recipe For Living Without Disease, Chapter 15.
How do you address negative comments from others?
I would be discerning about who and how you talk to about your pregnancy and birthing decisions. There are many self-righteous people out there who think they know better about what’s healthy for you and baby than you do and unfortunately they have public opinion and the government offices on their side. Celebrate your choices with other like-minded individuals and give as little info to outsiders as possible.
In Conclusion
If you want have healthy babies, begin planning in advance to address the parent’s health by incorporating healthy raw animal-based foods into the family diet. Avoid most medical diagnostics, tests, drugs, and treatments focused on curing chronic disease especially antibiotics, chemotherapy, and radiation. Reduce exposure to toxins in our food, phones, automobiles, water, environment, supplements, homes, cleaning products, and beauty aids. Receive regular massage and chiropractic care. Participate in gentle movement activities that are fun and enjoyable. It’s also important to create a safe loving environment surrounded by healthy supporters and community members who will honor and offer aligned wisdom and celebrate your natural process. Emotional balance and a serene nest are important when bringing a child into the world. If your partnership and family is stressful and conflicted, the baby will absorb these negative stress hormones and messages which will challenge babies thrival. And, most of all, having fun, engaging our creativity, adopting a positive outlook on life, and deepening our connection with Higher Power are paramount.
Click here to read our previous blog: Pregnancy and The Primal Diet™
For more support, contact our Primal Diet™ Coaches
Other Resources:
Ashley Dalidowitz, Child and Birth Coach
Free Birth Society
Primitive Reflexes -Dr. Jojo Yonce – Mighty Milestones
SOT Chiropractors
References:
Recipe for Living Without Disease, Aajonus Vonderplanitz
We Want to Live, Aajonus Vonderplanitz
How to Have Healthy Children in Spite of Your Doctor, Robert S. Mendelsohn
Stop Breast Cancer Before it Starts, Dr. Samuel Epstein
Life Before Birth, Arthur Janov
Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff
Infancy in Uganda, Mary D. Salter Ainsworth
Native Nutrition, Ronald Schmidt
Cure Tooth Decay, Ramil Nagel
Good Teeth Birth to Death, Gerald Judd
Uninformed Consent, Hall Higgins