If you’ve read many articles on Natural Birth and Baby Care.com or here in the blog I’m sure you’ve noticed my articles on the importance of nutrition. I believe it’s vitally important. And I believe it starts in the preconception period. Traditional cultures all over the world produced healthy, vigorous infants (and mothers with rich, plentiful milk) - and all these cultures had a special feeding program in the preconception period for mothers-to-be - and many of them fed the father-to-be special foods as well!
The need for good nutrition continues into pregnancy and nursing and throughout childhood. Solid nutrition helps to build solid, happy, healthy babies and children. But one of the challenges mothers (and mothers-to-be and mothers preparing to conceive) face is finding the time to cook good foods. In fact, you may not even really know how to cook good foods. Cooking and domestic life is not really taught in schools anymore. You just have to flounder around and figure it out for yourself!
In the past couple of months I’ve come across some resources and ideas that have made a big difference for me - helping me to make better meal choices and learn how to manage making meals without feeling overwhelmed. Surprisingly I’ve found cooking has become fairly easy - and I’m cooking nutrient dense meals from scratch! This is especially wonderful because I know that even through my tiring early pregnancy weeks I’ve provided my family with something tasty and good for their meals.
Speaking of meals, I need to run now to work on supper. But I’ll write tomorrow to share a little more about my favorite resource and the tips that have helped me the most!