Eat Right For Your Baby : The Individualized Guide to Fertility and Maximum Health During Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year [Hardcover]

Peter J. D'Adamo (Author), Catherine Whitney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 2003

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

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The author, a naturopathic doctor, follows his bestselling guide to healthy eating based on blood type (Eat Right for Your Type) with a program designed to provide optimal conditions for fertility as well as for pregnancy and childbirth. D'Adamo, with the collaboration of freelance writer Whitney, utilizes current genetic research to explain the chemical reaction between blood type and food. Someone, for example, with Type O blood who wants to conceive should eat a diet that includes beef or lamb, as proteins from these meats help to create a beneficial physical atmosphere for conception. A woman with Type A blood, however, in order to create the best conditions for conception, should eliminate meat from her diet and consume fish and seafood as her chief sources of protein. Divided into sections for blood Types O, A, B and AB, D'Adamo provides nutritional strategies, including recipes, concerning detailed advice on what foods to consume, avoid, and how frequently to eat. According to the author, following these guidelines will facilitate trouble-free pregnancies and childbirths. He also suggests exercises for before and after birth that are based on type. To best recover from childbirth, an AB woman should rely more on stretching exercises, while a Type O mother can engage more quickly in aerobics. Included also are nutritional plans, based on blood type, for the new baby. This is a very useful tool for new parents with a strong interest in alternative medicine.
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From Library Journal

The physician who gave us the blood-type diet (with various books claiming three million in print) now addresses new moms.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition edition (March 31, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399149961
• ISBN-13: 978-0399149962
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #947,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo is a noted naturopathic physician, researcher, and lecturer, and the author of the revolutionary Eat Right series. His extensive research and clinical testing of the connection among blood type, health, and disease has garnered international recognition and led to groundbreaking work on many illnesses.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Odd but worth it, October 14, 2003

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Paulita Burns (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat Right For Your Baby : The Individualized Guide to Fertility and Maximum Health During Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year (Hardcover)

Reading the other reviews, I can hear where other reviewers are coming from. It's true, this way of eating and exercising does not provide a one-size-fits-all approach, and often can seem odd. Dr. D'Adamo's Blood Type diet & exercise recommendations are explained in much more detail in earlier books. In particular, Live Right 4 Your Type would be a great introduction to the theory and science behind the Blood Type Diet (BTD). I see Eat Right 4 Your Baby (ER4YB) as a resource for folks who already have familiarity with the BTD and have found that it makes sense for them. I do wish that ER4YB included information regarding variations for non-secretors. As someone working towards getting healthy now, in anticipation of pregnancy in a few years, this information is very helpful to me, including in terms for maximizing fertility. I have lost 60 pounds in the last year from following these diet & exercise guidlines, and have seen a tremendous improvement in my energy, allergies, asthma, sinuses, and joint stiffness.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars At least give it a scan at your local library..., July 25, 2003

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"sinsaratea" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat Right For Your Baby : The Individualized Guide to Fertility and Maximum Health During Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year (Hardcover)

I perused this at my local health food store. If you already eat outside of the typical American diet and aren't opposed to meat/and dairy alternatives, you will find that you won't have to change much. I agree that I am slightly puzzled by a couple of the foods I must avoid, but most of it makes sense...NOT that I am happy about giving up corn and potatos! My parents are both O types,as well and my father and all his relatives have diabetes. Staying away from the wheat will keep me from that pathway, I hope. Do go to your library first and judge for yourself.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Infertility info alone worth the purchase, November 26, 2005

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Mummo (Midwest, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat Right For Your Baby: The Individulized Guide to Fertility and Maximum Heatlh During Pregnancy (Paperback)

Before I had read this book or been introduced to the "Right For Your Type" diet concept, I followed something very close to what D'Adamo advocates for my type. After 5 years of infertility, we conceived our baby daughter. Now that I have read the author's other books, I am not surprised to see that his recommendations can help infertile couples conceive and help those with recurring miscarriage.

I understand that carnivorous Type As and vegetarian Type Os will struggle with the diet. My encouragement is to read Live Right For Your Type first so that you actually get the science part of this. Then ask the many infertile women who have conceived after following his diet how "nuts" it is.