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Real Food for Mother and Baby: review & a giveaway!

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***Comments have been closed and the winners have been notified. Thank you all so much for participating!***

When Nina Planck and her publisher offered to send me an advanced copy of her new book Real Food for Mother & Baby I was thrilled. Her book Real Food: what to eat and why was one of the first books that I read on my journey towards nourishing food. She helped to revolutionize the way I think about food and nutrition.

I watched my mail box daily waiting for this book to arrive. I have a seven month old baby, you see. He has now been eating big people foods for a few weeks so this book couldn’t have come at a better time. When it finally arrived I dug in as fast as I could and at every available moment picked it up again.

I love the way Nina writes. She is persuasive, yet laid back. She shares the latest scientific research and is still down to earth. She gives you general dietary guidelines for a fertility diet, a pregnancy diet and baby’s first foods.

She is a mom. She knows what it’s like to be given a list of foods to eat and laugh because morning sickness just will not allow it. She understands a pregnant woman’s needs as well as a baby’s. She knows what it’s like to tip-toe into the scary waters of baby’s first foods.

I found it so refreshing to hear that rice cereal is not the ideal first food. With our first son I knew that he wasn’t digesting his it well and wondered why everyone would tell us to feed him this expensive, boxed food. I questioned why I would not serve my husband and myself something out of a box and yet the first “solid” food to cross my baby’s lips came from one. Why?

With our oldest son I was so paranoid from all of the warnings and rules given out. I wanted to try to make my own soaked rice cereal, but the Dr. said no – he needed the iron fortification. Funny how a little liver and grass-fed bison would have solved that problem.

What is so refreshing about this book is that over and over again she tells us to relax. You don’t need to understand rocket science to feed your baby – just listen to them and use some common sense.

I love that she is a huge advocate for breastfeeding and homebirthing. Breastfeeding is one area that I believe the Weston A. Price foundation has failed to put due emphasis. Breast milk is the perfect food and the majority of breast milk is comprised of saturated fat and cholesterol. It only makes sense to feed your baby these things.

I am so relieved to see our baby eating real food and loving it.

So far our baby has eaten:

  • egg yolk mashed with healthy fats
  • plain whole yogurt
  • avocado
  • sweet potato with butter
  • carrots with butter
  • ground pastured chicken with the fat

I have been putting some foods on a tray in front of him so that he can discover them. His main method for getting the food into his mouth is via my index finger. Spoons just seem to be causing frustration for both of us, and I don’t mind. He tells me what he likes and does not like. Last night he took a few nibbles of the carrots and then pushed away my hand. When I offered him the yogurt he couldn’t get my yogurt-covered finger into his mouth fast enough. He probably ate 2 tablespoons and then pushed my finger away again. He was done.

I believe anyone planning to have a baby should read this book. But don’t go out and buy it just yet. Nina generously sent me several copies to give away to my readers.

Enter the Real Food for Mother and Baby Giveaway!

I am giving away 3 copies of Real Food for Mother and Baby. Here are the guidelines:

  • U.S. or Canadian residents only, please.
  • First entry: simply leave a comment on this post.
  • Second entry: blog about this giveaway. I will receive a link back so there is no need to let me know.
  • Third entry: subscribe to nourishing days and leave a second, separate comment. If you are already a subscriber leave a second, separate comment letting me know.

The giveaway will run through the morning of Monday, April 6th. I will close comments and randomly choose three winners who will be notified by email.

I can’t wait to give you one of these books!

If you can’t wait for the giveaway or do not win you can purchase Real Food for Mother and Baby through Amazon.

This is a contribution to Real Food Wednesdays.

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  5. I loved Real Food: what to eat and why and can’t wait to read this one as well!

  6. I’ve been looking forward to the release of this book for months. I want to buy it for every woman I know who’s given birth recently and is overwhelmed with bad advice.

  8. I am really interested in this book. I have a 2 year old and baby #2 coming in August…been wondering what I can do different/better in our kitchen.

  14. Please enter me! I’m not a mom yet, but I think this will be a good book to have on hand when that time comes!

  15. I also am a subsciber to your newsletter. I’m not blogging about this, but do I still get a second entry? Hope so! 🙂

  16. Here is my second comment, letting you know I just become an official subscriber to your blog! 🙂

    ~Shannon

  18. I loved Real Food, and I’m so excited to find your site! Count me in, I’m going now to subscribe and I’ll be back to leave a second comment!

    Kerry’s last blog post..Spring Fever

  24. I would so love this book. I am not blogging at this time so I hope this entry is sufficient +the one I’m going to leave for subscribing…which I would have done long ago had I known about this website!!

    Thanks!

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  30. I just found your blog today (linked over from Elizabeth’s Real Learning) and I am loving reading your back posts!

    With our first son, we followed some of the “Super Baby Food” recommendations, but still didn’t love the cereal aspect. Since then, I’ve learned about NT and WAP and am excited to try a new process with our second (due in just a few weeks!) I would love to be considered for this giveaway. Thank you!

    Best,
    Sarah

    Sarah’s last blog post..Taco Casserole with Spanish Brown Rice

  40. I would love to read this book!! We are right at that age where we are going to start introducing foods!

  42. I’m just starting my baby on solids. How timely! Thanks for the giveawy…please enter me!

  45. This sounds like a great book!
    Thanks for the giveaway!
    Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com

  46. I can’t wait to read this book. I hope I will but I will definitely buy it if I don’t. Thank you for the great giveaway and blog.

    Elizabeth

  48. I loved Nina’s first book and wish this one had come out about a year earlier! My son is 15 months old and I feel like we’ve been winging it when it comes to solids and nutrition.

    I agree that WAPF has dropped the ball when it comes to breastfeeding, so I’m very excited to hear what a breastfeeding mom with her food background has to say!

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  49. I also subscribe to your RSS feed.

    I’d love a third entry too, but blogging about giveaways always feels so spammy to me…

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