Resources

The Dr. Brewer Pregnancy Diet

Resources

Links to articles, books, organizations, and authors that can provide additional information on nutrition and health in pregnancy.

Birth is not only about making babies.
Birth is about making mothers
~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

~ Barbara Katz Rothman ~

Birth Sociologist and Author

Websites related to the Brewer Diet

Blue Ribbon Baby

Brewer Institute

The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

The Pre-Eclamptic Toxaemia Society, PETS (Great Britain)

AG Gestose-Frauen (Germany)

Articles Related to the Brewer Diet

"Aggie Higgins Lit a Candle"

"Are you a Size-Friendly Midwife?"

"Bed Rest in Pregnancy: Health Risks"

Brewer Diet, Breastfeeding, and Losing Weight

Brewer Diet and Healthy Teeth for Kids

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Brewer Diet and Twins

Brewer Diet Plan for Lacto-Ovo Diets

"The Brewer Pregnancy Diet"

"Diet, Air Pollution and PreEclampsia"

"Ditch that Low-Salt Diet!"

"Eat to Beat Pregnancy Complications"

Gail Sforza Krebs

Gail Sforza Krebs regarding their new book

"Gestational Diabetes"

"Gestational Diabetes: Myth or Metabolism?"(scroll down)

"How mum's diet ups obesity risk"

"How to Stay Healthy and Low Risk During Pregnancy and Birth"

"Hummous and Enchiladas Make Beautiful Babies, Too!"

"Keeping Childbearing Normal Through Nutrition"

"Nutrition During Pregnancy"

"Pre-eclampsia - A disease of malnutrition"

"Pregnancy Nutrition--the Brewer Diet"

"Prematurity is Preventable"

"Preventing Complications with Nutrition"

"Preventing Complications with the Brewer Diet"

"Preventing eclampsia: an interview with Tom Brewer, MD" (November 2004)

"Preventing Toxemia of Pregnancy", by Bob Filice, MD

"Protein Intake and Toxemia"

"The Role of Nutrition in Preterm Labor"

"Six Keys to Preventing Complications and Giving Birth to a Healthy Baby"

"They Are What You Eat--Nutrition in a Plural Pregnancy"

"Toxemia: Early Warning Signs"

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Books Related to the Brewer Diet

The Brewer Medical Diet for Normal and High Risk Pregnancy (Gail Sforza Brewer and Tom Brewer, MD)

Doctor Clegg's Machete (A novel based on the life of Dr. Brewer, a must-read for every student of the Brewer Diet)

Eating for Two (Isaac Cronin and Gail Sforza Brewer)

Five Standards for Safe Childbearing

Having Twins (Elizabeth Noble)

Maternal Nutrition and Child Health (Jay Hodin and Douglas Shanklin, MD)

Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy (Tom Brewer, MD)

Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way (Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg)

Nine Months, Nine Lessons (Gail Sforza Brewer)

The Pregnancy After 30 Workbook (Gail Sforza Brewer)

Right from the Start (Gail Sforza Brewer and Janice Presser Greene)

21st Century Obstetrics Now! Vol. 2

Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year (Anne Frye)

--Under "Maternal Metabolic Disorders" you will find "Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy and the Liver Profile Test".

The Very Important Pregnancy Program

What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know: The Truth About Diet and Drugs in Pregnancy (Gail Sforza Brewer and Tom Brewer, MD)

Of Time and Memory, by Don Snyder: A moving biography of a mother who died of pre-eclampsia in 1950 because they didn't know about the Brewer Diet

Links to Other Organizations

Midwifery Today

Mothering Magazine

Pushed Birth

Spinning Babies

Waterbirth International

Belly Dance for Birth

Evaluating Ezzo Programs

Safe Motherhood Quilt Project

The Society of Homeopaths--Pregnancy & Childbirth

Empowering Each Woman Giving Birth Naturally

Island Childbirth.com Resources

Empowered Birth Services

Natural Birth and Baby Care

The Natural Child Project

Childbirth Connection

Wrap Your Baby

Birth Essentials

Gentle Birth

Natural Family Company

DONA International (Doulas)

Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators

The Doula School

Birthworks International

Birth Buddies

Ancient Art Midwifery Institute

The Farm Midwifery Center

Midwives Alliance of North America

Citizens for Midwifery

The Big Push for Midwives

Ohio Physicians for Midwives

American College of Nurse Midwives

American College of Traditional Midwives

Association of Radical Midwives

Royal College of Midwives

International Confederation of Midwives

Coalition for Illinois Midwifery

Christian Midwives International

Unassisted Childbirth

REDUCE

International Cesarean Awareness Network

VBAC.com

Birth Injuries Related to Umbilical Cord Clamping

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after Childbirth

Solace for Mothers

Birth Trauma Association

Birth Trauma Support Group

Trauma and Birth Stress

The Fistula Foundation

Birth Without Borders

Neonatal Unity for Mothers and Babies

Kangaroo Care

Kangaroo Mother Care

Doctors Opposing Circumcision

NORM-UK

Nurses for the Right of the Child

The International Coalition for Genital Integrity

Mothers Against Circumcision

FGC Education and Networking Project

Stop Excision.net

Stop FGM/C

Perinatal Hospice

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

(Infant Bereavement Photography)

Other Favorite Authors

Ina May Gaskin

Sheila Kitzinger

Suzanne Arms

Jennifer Block

Mary Cronk/Jane Evans

David and Lee Stewart

Dr. Frederick Leboyer

Dr. Douglas R. Shanklin

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets:
Your body is not a lemon.
You are not a machine.
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo.

~ Ina May Gaskin ~

Perinatal Support Services pregnancydiet@mindspring.com