Here’s a great program by Yuri Elkaim, one of my favourite teachers. He was one of my favourite chef’s during my Raw Pregnancy, and his recipes are simple and easy. Almost too easy!
Click here to learn more from Yuri’s Raw Experience.
Let me know if you find this helpful!
Raw potlucks are a great idea when you are having or want to have a raw pregnancy. meeting people informally in your home gives you a great opportunity to talk with like minded people about the problems you are running into, and also just to hear some new ideas and insights.
I’m having one every month and it’s been great so far. After every raw potluck we are all inspired and have some great new recipes to try at home!
I found my potluck group members by asking them after a raw food weekend workshop. Also, I have some friends who do not want to eat 100% raw but are interested to try it out. Raw Food Potlucks are a great way to expand our friendship into raw food and to learn even from the beginners because they come up with recipes that are delicious!
I highly reccomend to try it out!
We all want the healtiest babies possible. Babywearing, meaning carrying your baby or in a babycarrier, turns out to be very beneficial for babies and their mothers. Babies develop higher intelligence, better social skills and better motor skills. Babywearing can be done into toddlerhood, with the same effects.
Having mother near them as often as possible, means that babies feel secure and that develops a healthy self confidence for babies. These babies are more independent when they grow up than babies who spent less time with their mothers. That ‘s why it is important to have babies and toddlers near to mothers as much as possible.
When babywearing, mothers have more freedom and can use both hands while keeping an eye on the needs of their infants.
When a mother wants to go to work or study, babywearing can help to keep babies and mothers together.
Watch these videos on babywearing to work or study. Then read the ideas on how you can help below.
Here’s part two of that video:
This video give a good impression of the freedom parents get with a baby carrier:
Babywearing and baby proximity can be increased gradually. Here are a few ideas:
If you employer or student makes arrangements to have her baby cared for nearby work or your educational program, then why not allow her to take her baby to lunch and breaks. She would need to do some communication with her babysitter when the breaks are near using text messaging or the like.
Also, if you give a course in a special location, why not allow parents to take their small children to that location so that they can share meals AND night together?
Breastfeeding on demand means there are no schedules for baby feeding but caregivers watch and listen for clues that babies give, to indicate they want to nurse.
The effect of this is that babies learn that what they say matters. They therefore become better communicators and more intelligent. Also, their brains and bodies develop better because their physical needs are better met.
Women who can breastfeed during work or study can feel more relaxed because they know their babies have the better care. They can be more focused on the job.
You can help realise this by allowing nearby babysitting and by allowing the baby to be taken to mother when brestfeeding is needed. Breastfeeding can be done very discretely with modern breastfeeding clothing.
When a babysitter is nearby, it becomes possible for a mother to carry her baby in a carrier during parts of the day and bring the baby to the sitter while the baby sleeps or has taken in enough “mommy”.
With modern “Friend locator apps”, the babysitter can locate the mother and bring or fetch the baby.
You can help by indicating to the mother which periods of the day are conducive to babywearing, such as walking or hiking. Have a meeting while having a walk! Your own brain will function better while you walk, so why not add “walking meetings” to your choices?
Also, a lecture gives possibilities, where mother can be in the back of the room walking back and forth with her baby on her back, while listening to the lecture. Babies in baby carriers tend to be very qiet and attentive to what’s happening!
Now, what can you do as an employer or teacher? Let “your” mothers know that you are open to this and talk with them how you can help realise this!
Is this inspirational or what? I’m so glad people share their experiences with Raw Food and Attachment Parenting. The two seem to go hand in hand. Please leave your comment and tell us your experience!
Another story with benefits of raw pregnancy and breastfeeding. Please leave your comments!
See how this woman shares her idea for a raw baby food breakfast or lunch:
Her Raw Pineapple veggie smoothie recipe:
Ingredients: Fresh pineapple, orange bell pepper, organic carrot, soaked casehws, soaked sunflouwer seeds, olive oil, sea salt and water – blend it up in the vita-mix blender and you’re ready!
This mother gives her baby Raw soaked seaweed, ground flax seeds, soaked nuts, and her baby really likes it!
Like many other moms, she sometimes pre-chews the food for her baby.
Please leave your comment or question below!
Watch this video of the Talifero Family, Jinjee is full of energy, hikes every day, gained only 10 pounds during her pregnancy, has no swollen ankles.
She nursed her children for three years.
Please share your comments or questions below.
See how this women shares her experiences with her Raw Food Pregnancy
Her green smoothies helped her to feel much better.
As soon as she went 100% she started to feel incredibly well, stable. She took avocado on a daily basis. She made a tea from Red raspberry, Chamomile,Rosehips, Nettles – all famous for helping pregnancy. She makes her Smoothies or her Daily nut milk with her tea as her base.
She has not taken DHA supplement because it gives her “pregnancy brains”, she starts forgetting stuff.
She takes a lot of nutritional yeast for her B12. She is now two weeks before her due date and feels great, is homeschooling her two other children and does many other things.
Her body is not swollen, she feels lighter and limber. Her feet are not swollen.
Are you pregnant and Raw? Do you have any questions? Please share in the comments.
Jinjee Talifero was the biggest inspiration during my pregnancy.
Her experiences with raw food and painless and ecstatic birthgiving are very noteworthy:
Also, she opens up a new way for men to participate in birthgiving: not standing by and feeling like an outsider but a very important partner for the woman in labor to help her turn her pain into ecstacy! Thanks tot the Women go Raw tour for this excellent video!
I feel that Jinjee has opened up a whole new choice for women to give birth wihout pain or even in exstacy, and for men to be welcomed as “Partners in Pleasure” to help women’s pain turn into pleasure during the birthgiving process. What strikes me is how much difference it makes if you go 100% or not: It makes all the difference:
We need more stories like this! Did you stay 100% raw during your pregnancy – or less? What was your labor like? Leave your stories in the comments please!