What is a Good Diet for the Pregnant Mother?

    It has been reported that over 30,000 fetus deaths occur in wanted pregnancies in the USA. The cause of fetal deaths is attributed to bad diets of the pregnant mother.  This web site link gives more information to mothers-to-be in how to prevent miscarriages and defected babies, by Dr. Tom Brewer's Blue Ribbon Baby Pages

    "A good diet will protect your baby from these troubles.

    Bad diets cause diseases in mothers too:

1. Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy (MTLP) - a disease caused by not enough good quality proteins and vitamins in the diet. Women with MTLP suffer convulsions or "fits", coma, heart failure, shock, fat in their livers, bleeding into their livers, and often death for both mother and baby. It is estimated that in the United States 30,000 babies die each year of MTLP  and thousands more live with damage to their brains. They suffer cerebral epilepsy and other nervous system disorders.
   A good diet will protect you and your baby from MTLP.
   
2. Anemias ( "low blood" ) - caused by not enough iron, vitamins and/or proteins in the diet.
   A good diet will protect you from anemias.
   
3. Abruption of the Placenta  - a disease in which the placenta (or "afterbirth") breaks loose inside the mother's womb, often before labor begins. The mother bleeds, and the baby dies in 50% of the cases.
   A good diet will protect you and your baby from Abruption of the Placenta.
   
4. Severe infections of the lungs, kidneys and liver.
   A good diet will protect you and your baby from severe infections.
   
5. Miscarriage - if the mother does not have a good diet, the placenta grows imperfectly  and cannot meet the needs of the developing baby, and a miscarriage results.
   A good diet will protect you and your baby from miscarriages.

http://www.blueribbonbaby.org/ifyouarepregnant/4-goodnutrition.shtml

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Table of Contents is at:   www.lotusbirth.com/_cont260.htm   (See Placenta, Fetus Circulation, Fetus Development, T. Peltonen, Mavis Gunther, Dr. Sarah Buckley's Declaration, and Ode to My Placenta.

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Originally Posted: May 26, 2004