Synopses & Reviews
Anyone who is having a child is concerned about how to have a healthy baby. And anyone trying to conceive is concerned about roadblocks. From the
New York Times bestselling author of
Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type comes a complete blood type plan for fertility, maximizing health during all stages of pregnancy and a baby's first year. Dr. Peter D'Adamo brings decades of research on the connection between blood type and health to this comprehensive guide to healthy pregnancy and childbirth. Now, for the first time, Dr. D'Adamo's revolutionary blood type diet has been customized for expectant parents and infants.
In Eat Right 4 (for) Your Baby, you'll find out the most promising and problematic blood type combinations for getting pregnant and carrying to term, and you'll learn what you can do through diet, exercise, and supplements to increase fertility. You'll find out what to eat, how much to exercise, what teas to drink, and which supplements to take during each trimester according to your blood type. You'll learn what beneficial foods to eat and exactly how much while nursing. You'' have a plan for introducing your newborn to the blood type diet, to give your baby the healthiest possible first year. You'll also discover the best strategies for getting back into shape.
Additionally, there are blood type guides for dealing with pregnancy's side effects. If you're feeling nauseated, for example, you can look up the section on morning sickness in the chapter on your blood type and read how to deal with it. If you have gestational diabetes or toxemia, you can find your blood type protocol for coping with it or preventing it. You'll be able to find an individualized blood type protocol for coping with or preventing any health problem related to your pregnancy.
There are meal plans and recipes for mom at every stage, as well as formula and baby food recipes. The book is packed with success stories from patients who have tested the program, as well as food lists, supplement guides, and advice for dads.
Synopsis
It's what we've all been waiting for. Four blood types, four diets, four plans for overcoming obstacles to having a healthy pregnancy and child.
Eat Right 4 (for) Your Baby provides blood-type specific diet, exercise, and supplement prescriptions for fertility, prenatal care, pregnancy, nursing, postpartum, and the vital first year of a child's life.
This is a complete, easy-to-use guide that every health-conscious parent-to-be should have.
FERTILITY
Blood-Type Super Foods and protocols to aid conception and foster a healthy pregnancy
Which blood types are chemically incompatible, increasing the risk of infertility and miscarriage, and what you can do about it
A guide for dads-eating right for their type to increase their fertility
How eating right for your blood type can increase fertility and reduce the chance of miscarriage
PREGNANCY
Blood-type diet strategies to maximize health and fetal nutrition in each trimester
How to overcome common pregnancy side effects including morning sickness, varicose veins, and food cravings
Blood-type susceptibilities to serious conditions-high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, toxemia-and tactics for preventing them
AFTER THE BIRTH
Which blood types are most susceptible to postpartum depression, and how to avoid it
Blood-type strategies for getting back in shape after the birth of your baby
YOUR BABY
How to use the blood-type diet to increase the supply and quality of breast milk
Adapting the blood-type diet to the special needs of your breast-feeding baby
Blood-type-specific infant formula recipes if you can't nurse
Your baby's first blood-type diet
Synopsis
Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo applies his bestselling blood type diet plan to expectant parents and infants. This one-of-a-kind guide offers methods of maximizing health from fertility through every stage of pregnancy and the baby's first year:
About the Author
Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo is a noted naturopathic physician, researcher, lecturer, and author of the revolutionary
Eat Right series. His extensive research and clinical testing of the connection between blood type, health, and disease have garnered international recognition and led to groundbreaking work with many illnesses. Dr. D'Adamo was selected Physician of the Year in 1990 by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and Clinician of the Month for February 1991 by
Preventive Medicine Update. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages.
Catherine Whitney is the coauthor of numerous bestselling books on health and medicine.