From [Chia] Seed to [Changing] Table: A Vegan Nutrition & Pregnancy Webinar by Sistah Vegan Pro
If you are like most folk who have listened to mainstream media in the USA, you have heard of the sensationalized stories once or twice a year, of a mother who ‘killed’ her child ‘because’ she was vegan. If you have had interest in getting pregnant and/or having a vegan pregnancy, you may have been ‘attacked’ by supposedly loving family members and ‘concerned’ midwives or practitioners that such a diet is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible.’
These are all misconceptions, as myself and a plethora of pregnant people (I say ‘people’ because not all people who are pregnant necessarily identify as a ‘woman’) and their children are living proof that a properly planned vegan pregnancy and lactation period will help you and your baby thrive.
Below is a photo of my daughter who is now 4. She was ‘built’ by a whole foods vegan diet. In addition, you are looking at happy and thriving child in which over 85% of her ‘food’ source came from my vegan-produced breast milk, the first 13 months of her life. She was 9.5lb at birth and full term. 6 hour labor.
Eva Luna at 18 months old.
Eva Luna, Age 4, August 2015. (Photo Credit: Dr. Oliver Zahn)
In 2013, I also gave birth to my 3rd child after a great vegan pregnancy and she is thriving. I continue to nurse her on demand via my vegan diet and she just turned 2 and is holding a vegan home-made cupcake below.
Kira-Satya, My 3rd child.
You may be scared. You may be confused. Or maybe you do have the confidence to practice a vegan pregnancy, but do not know where to begin. Don’t worry, I felt this way with my 1st pregnancy and ended up eating eggs several times a month due to my own fears and feeling ‘guilty’ (despite me knowing, intellectually, veganism is healthy when practiced properly). The Sistah Vegan project is offering an on demand pre-recored webinar with powerpoint slides with the following:
* Guaranteed plant based remedy/prevention for prenatal anemia * Learn this simple herbal remedy to prevent hemorrhoids * Learn what simple seed can increase hydration, energy, and calcium * Learn the top four plant based proteins essential for pregnancy * Constipation is NOT ‘normal’, despite the myth. Learn how to poop 2-3x a day while pregnant.
You will be able to play the recordings and download notes and slides whenever you want to. In this webinar you will learn what you need to get started on your path to an amazing and fulfilling plant-based dietary pregnancy and post-partum lactation period. If you are at the end of your pregnancy but want to learn how a whole foods plant-based Sistah Vegan diet can help you produce optimal milk supply for an infant, then this webinar is also for you. In addition, post-partum hair loss is significant amongst people who have just given birth; many tell me that years after giving birth, they struggle with hair loss and thinning. I will teach you how a few herbs and foods can regrow and strengthen your hair.
Date: You can Download it anytime.
Cost: $25.99
How to pay and download: Click REGISTER to register, pay, and download.
Duration: 2 hours.
Technology requirements: a computer with a fast internet connection and a free Anymeeting.com (my webinars are hosted through Any meeting.com)
About the Instructor: Dr. A. Breeze Harper is the director and founder of the Sistah Vegan Project, a organization dedicated to critical race feminist perspectives on veganism, as seen through the collective experiences of Black North American females. Dr. Harper started the project in 2005. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and University of California-Davis. Her innovative ability to integrate the use of educational technologies to analyze Black female vegans food and health philosophies earned her the Dean’s Award from Harvard University in 2007 for her Master Thesis work: this is an honor only bestowed upon one candidate per program.
Dr. Harper’s knowledge about diversity within the field of food and wellness has marked her as a highly sought after paid consultant and speaker for many American universities. She has given many keynote addresses including at Boston University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Oregon, and Southwestern University. She teaches students, faculty, and staff how and why people have unique relationships to food and wellness and how these relationships are impacted by race, socio-economic class, gender, sexuality, and ability. She has published extensively, including Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health and Society (Lantern Books 2010). She graduated summa cum-laude from University of California-Davis with a PhD in critical geographies of race and food. She has 4 biological children and has been nursing non-stop since 2009 (written July 2017).
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