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Not Everyone Is Thrilled","publishDate":1484937867,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>For many pregnant women, understanding what seafood is safe and healthy, and what should be avoided because of mercury concerns comes with a lot of hand-wringing. In part, that's because the federal government's advice on the matter, first issued in 2004, has long been criticized as unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That guidance has included advice on how much seafood to eat, and which species pregnant and nursing women should avoid over concerns about mercury contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the government advisory has done more harm than good, scaring many pregnant and nursing women (and let's be real — pretty much everyone else) away from eating seafood altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is real. According to a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration, the agency analyzed fish consumption data from more than 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. and found that 21 percent of them ate no fish whatsoever in the previous month. And those who did eat fish consumed far less than recommended by the Dietary Guidelines: Some 50 percent ate less than 2 ounces a week and 75 percent ate less than 4 ounces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, in the waning days of the Obama administration, the FDA and Environmental Protection Agency issued an \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Metals/ucm393070.htm\">update to the advice\u003c/a>, listing more than 60 species in a chart that ranks fish as a \"best choice,\" \"good choice\" and \"choices to avoid.\" The goal is to make it easier for moms-to-be to feel confident about the type of seafood they include in their diets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new advice recommends consumers choose a variety of fish to eat. And it comes with an easy-to-understand illustration of what an appropriate portion size should be: 4 ounces for an adult, the full size of your palm; and 2 ounces for children aged 4-7 — which is more like the inside cup of your palm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while expectant mothers have long been warned to stay away from shark, King mackerel, swordfish and tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico, now there's three new species on the list of what to avoid: marlin, orange roughy, and bigeye tuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, not everyone is thrilled with the new advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can put this in with the Chelsea Manning pardon, it's that controversial,\" says Dr. Tom Brenna, a professor of human nutrition at Cornell University and a member of the government's 2015 Dietary Guideline Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenna and other critics say the new advice doesn't always jibe with the agency's own scientific findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Metals/UCM396785.pdf\">2014 report from the FDA\u003c/a> looked at the net effects of eating commercial fish during pregnancy on the neurodevelopment of growing babies. The report found it would be safe to eat 61 ounces of halibut a week. (That's about 15 four-ounce servings.) But the new advisory from the FDA suggests that halibut be limited to just once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're completely ignoring their own [2014] report,\" Brenna says. \"It's a terrible, awful message. They've ignored the nutrition science and at best, they're ranking the amount of mercury.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Brenna argues that splitting tuna into three different categories muddles an already complex message even further. Bigeye tuna (often known as ahi) falls on the \"avoid\" list, while albacore and yellowfin are listed as \"good choices,\" and canned light tuna, which includes skipjack, is listed as a \"best choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People won't see there's a difference between the types of tuna, they'll only see that tuna is on the list,\" Brenna says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, others worried the new advice might prompt pregnant women and small kids to eat too much tuna. \"If pregnant women or small kids followed the new advice from the government on mercury and tuna[,] they could easily consume more mercury than is safe for developing brains,\" Lisa Lefferts, a senior scientist with The Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to NPR, FDA spokesperson Peter Cassell says it's important to note that this guidance is targeted to certain women and young children. \"We took a cautious and highly protective approach in determining which fish belonged in each category and are comfortable with the limits we are providing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While mercury looms large when we're talking about pregnant women and seafood, it's not the only contaminant of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new EPA/FDA chart lists both wild striped bass and bluefish as \"good choices,\" meaning one serving a week is OK. But striped bass and bluefish on the East Coast have been known to have high levels of PCBs, which can build up in the fatty tissues of fish and bring health risks to humans, says Tim Fitzgerald of the Environmental Defense Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, to cite one example, depending the fish's size, Maryland's consumption advisory recommends women limit meals of striped bass to as little as\u003ca href=\"http://www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Marylander/CitizensInfoCenterHome/Documents/Fish%20Consumption%20Docs/Maryland_Fish_Advisories_2014_Web_bluecatedit.pdf\"> one serving a month\u003c/a> — far less than the new FDA/EPA advisory recommends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA maintains that its final consumption recommendations were based on rigorous scientific analysis. Agency spokesman Cassell says the FDA believes the recommendations will instill confidence, not uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenna disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the advice they're giving is not based on the evidence in their own detailed report,\" he says, \"and that it confuses everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leschin-hoar.com/\">Clare Leschin-Hoar\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in San Diego who covers food policy and sustainability issues.\u003c/em> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2017\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Concerns about mercury contamination have led many pregnant women to under-consume seafood. So the FDA issued a new chart explaining what to eat and what to avoid. 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In part, that's because the federal government's advice on the matter, first issued in 2004, has long been criticized as unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That guidance has included advice on how much seafood to eat, and which species pregnant and nursing women should avoid over concerns about mercury contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the government advisory has done more harm than good, scaring many pregnant and nursing women (and let's be real — pretty much everyone else) away from eating seafood altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is real. According to a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration, the agency analyzed fish consumption data from more than 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. and found that 21 percent of them ate no fish whatsoever in the previous month. 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And it comes with an easy-to-understand illustration of what an appropriate portion size should be: 4 ounces for an adult, the full size of your palm; and 2 ounces for children aged 4-7 — which is more like the inside cup of your palm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while expectant mothers have long been warned to stay away from shark, King mackerel, swordfish and tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico, now there's three new species on the list of what to avoid: marlin, orange roughy, and bigeye tuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, not everyone is thrilled with the new advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can put this in with the Chelsea Manning pardon, it's that controversial,\" says Dr. Tom Brenna, a professor of human nutrition at Cornell University and a member of the government's 2015 Dietary Guideline Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenna and other critics say the new advice doesn't always jibe with the agency's own scientific findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Metals/UCM396785.pdf\">2014 report from the FDA\u003c/a> looked at the net effects of eating commercial fish during pregnancy on the neurodevelopment of growing babies. 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But striped bass and bluefish on the East Coast have been known to have high levels of PCBs, which can build up in the fatty tissues of fish and bring health risks to humans, says Tim Fitzgerald of the Environmental Defense Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, to cite one example, depending the fish's size, Maryland's consumption advisory recommends women limit meals of striped bass to as little as\u003ca href=\"http://www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Marylander/CitizensInfoCenterHome/Documents/Fish%20Consumption%20Docs/Maryland_Fish_Advisories_2014_Web_bluecatedit.pdf\"> one serving a month\u003c/a> — far less than the new FDA/EPA advisory recommends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA maintains that its final consumption recommendations were based on rigorous scientific analysis. 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But my milk came in, and he sucked and grew. It never occurred to me to wonder: what would I do if it didn't? But following the harrowing birth of my daughter this past February, I realized that for many babies, especially preemies, it’s a matter of life and death. And I learned, through 51 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive_care_unit\" target=\"_blank\">NICU\u003c/a>) and in the months since, that my milk—in fact, any healthy, lactating mother’s milk—can be frozen, donated and banked to save babies who need it. But I’m getting ahead of my story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2009, though my wife, Carol, and I had decided to give birth at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, our chief desire was to have as little medical intervention as possible. I was 42, old to be doing this in medical terms, but very healthy, and though I wasn’t sure what my capacity for endurance, or my level of pain-tolerance, would turn out to be, I was determined to do what I could to have a drug-free, natural birth. When we checked into the hospital, I refused the standard IV line. My doctor was not on call, so we were assigned Dr. Kurt Wharton, someone we’d never met, which turned out to be the best possible twist of fate, given that, when my regular OB later learned I’d been allowed to push for six hours after a very long labor, said, “I wouldn’t have let you push for more than two.” Exhausted, deliriously happy, and feeling like Athena, I replied, “Well, I’m glad you weren’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after Olin was born, I tried to breastfeed him. As is the case with most women, I didn’t have much milk yet, and the boy began howling with hunger. A nurse brought me a breast pump, a bag of supplies, and suggested I get to work. While it’s a given that the sooner you begin pumping, the sooner your milk will come in, a surprising performance anxiety took hold. I pumped for 20 minutes, only to get a thimbleful of colostrum. The nurse encouraged me, as did the lactation specialist available to all new parents at Alta Bates, that my experience was normal, and that this tiny bit of pre-milk was the best thing for my son’s brand-new immune system. After a few days, we were blissfully breastfeeding, and Carol was able to give our son bottles of pumped milk, an important part of their bonding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward nearly five years to the birth of our daughter, Djuna, which was as dystopian as Olin’s birth was idyllic. Thirty weeks and four days into this pregnancy, which had been punctuated with severe “epigastric” pain—what I later learned was a hallmark symptom of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000890.htm\" target=\"_blank\">HELLP Syndrome\u003c/a>, a life-threatening condition alleviated only by the birth of the baby—I found myself going from the ER to triage to Labor and Delivery in one fell swoop. And the medical interventions, which were absolutely necessary, but nonetheless terrifying, began. Nifedipine for high blood pressure, magnesium sulfate to prevent seizures and labor. Steroid shots for the baby’s under-developed lungs. Then, two days later, Pitocin to force labor to begin, which is akin to what I imagine a cattle prod to the uterus might feel like. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, we still hoped for a vaginal birth, and all my focus went toward this effort. But it was not to be; the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placental_abruption\" target=\"_blank\">placenta began to detach\u003c/a> and an emergency c-section, in which the doctor had 16 minutes to get the baby out, ensued. General anesthesia. Unconsciousness. Complete absence from the birth of my daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I woke up, I was, at turns, angry, shaky and in pain, and grateful to be alive. It would be a full 27 hours before I got to meet Djuna, our nearly 16-inch, two-pound preemie extraordinaire, and begin our arduous road to health and home. But first, I had to pass through my terror of simply touching her. When the nurse asked me if I wanted to hold her, I said, “Am I qualified?” It was a real question. She was beautiful to me in the way that a primordial creature behind glass in a zoo might be: exquisitely designed and alien. But then our eyes locked, and I knew she was my baby, and that she needed the warmth of my body, however wrecked. Her personality emerged right away. She was observant and patient, and declared herself to be someone who was planning to stick around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We learned, through a NICU nurse, that breast milk would be an important factor in how well the baby fared overall, how soon she would be released, and her overall prognosis for her early years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew that breast milk is helpful in the development of the immune system for all babies, but preemies are even more susceptible to infections—and what I didn’t know is that the body automatically produces milk that is for your preemie’s specific gestational age at birth. It has more calories and protein than the milk the same mother would produce for a full-term infant. Because Djuna would be fed through a tube until she could begin “recreational” breastfeeding at 34-35 weeks when her “suck-swallow-breathe” reflex kicked in, it was all pumping, all the time. And it was hard. My body was sluggish from the anesthesia drugs, still reeling from the burn of magnesium sulfate, and hurt from being sliced open. But we were lucky. The NICU and lactation staff knew how to support me in eking out the few drops of milk I got with each attempt, every two hours. At first, I was wheeled up to the NICU carrying my syringe half-full of colostrum, and was always greeted by an eager nurse, saying, “Oh, Djuna will love this,” or some other word of encouragement. The NICU nurses treated this early breast milk like liquid gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not for the patience of hospital staff and my family, as well as my memories of having experienced the long ramp-up to full milk production before, I seriously doubt I would’ve been able to provide milk for baby D. But soon, I was gathering quite a collection in the NICU freezer, up to 24 ounces per day. Since the baby started with scant 5ml servings, I quickly got ahead of her needs. My confidence that I might actually be able to take care of this baby grew, and the pumping became synonymous with my own drive to get the medication residue out of my system and return to equilibrium, a state whose nature I sometimes forgot. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Djuna began taking in more quantity, and finally, at around 38 weeks, began breastfeeding, I thought we were out of the woods as far as basic nutrition went. Then, shortly after we brought Djuna home, Carol discovered that my frozen milk—all 300-plus bottles of it—was high in lipase, an enzyme that, when frozen, imparts a sour, even spoiled, taste to the milk. It isn’t harmful to the baby, but most babies refuse it. In that moment, I envisioned thawing and dumping all that beautiful milk down the drain. What else could be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/breast-milk-donation.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/breast-milk-donation.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen breast milk packaged for shipment to the Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose.\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87174\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frozen breast milk packaged for shipment to the Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two of our mainstay nurses, Stacey and Nieves, had suggested we look into donating it, but I was certain that I wouldn’t qualify, given the number of drugs I had been on for the first month of pumping. So, I didn’t think much more about it, just let the bottles sit in the freezer, taking up space. Then I got a call from the lactation specialist at Alta Bates, who needed us to retrieve our milk that was stored in the NICU’s freezer—200 bottles. When she sensed the despair in my voice, she asked, “Why don’t you donate it to the \u003ca href=\"http://mothersmilk.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mothers' Milk Bank\u003c/a>?” I let her know how many drugs I’d been on when all that milk had been pumped. She pulled out her sheet of donor criteria and, to my surprise, none of my medications was on the forbidden list. My wife and I decided to pursue this idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose bank was founded in 1974, as a non-profit tissue bank, to process and provide human donor milk to babies in need—more than 570,000 ounces in 2013. There are currently 16 similar banks in North America that are recognized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbana.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Milk Banking Association of North America \u003c/a>(HMBANA). The national premature birth rate is 7.6%, and mothers of these babies are often the most compromised in terms of their ability to produce milk. And their babies are at the highest risk for digestive problems, infections, and health problems later in life, such as asthma, diabetes, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 51 days we spent in NICU, I learned about families whose babies depended on donor milk for their survival. One family was so devastated by the loss of one of their preemie twins that the mother was unable to provide milk for the surviving sibling. Another had a chronic illness that prevented her from breastfeeding. One young mother had died of a pulmonary embolism shortly after giving birth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest babies often have trouble digesting formula, and this can lead to consequences ranging from mild discomfort to a life-threatening condition known as NEC (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001148.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Necrotizing enterocolitis\u003c/a>), an inflammatory disease that kills intestinal tissue and often requires surgery to repair perforations. Processed human milk, which has been pasteurized to eliminate potentially harmful bacteria, is the ideal first food for these little ones. And though pasteurization kills some beneficial antibodies, the milk still contains immune-boosting properties that formula does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Lindsley, NICU Manager at Alta Bates, says that between 10 and 15 percent of preemies born before the gestational age of 32 weeks who are admitted to the NICU receive donor milk. Occasionally, there is a shortage, and in these cases, babies who are most in need are prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process for donation is easy and efficient. I was required to have a blood test for several infectious diseases, as well as disclose any medications I had been taking. In about an hour after my results came back clean, my frozen milk was packed up and shipped to the San Jose bank. I love knowing that it will go to a preemie, who, much like my daughter, needed human milk to get her through the difficult first months of life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information about milk donation, and the various ways you can help, contact \u003ca href=\"http://mothersmilk.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mothers' Milk Bank\u003c/a>; (408) 998-4550.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In my preemie daughter’s 51-day stay at Alta Bates Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), I learned the value of human milk. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412968132,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1936},"headData":{"title":"The Magic of Milk: Preemies, Breastfeeding, and Human Milk Donation | KQED","description":"In my preemie daughter’s 51-day stay at Alta Bates Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), I learned the value of human milk. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Magic of Milk: Preemies, Breastfeeding, and Human Milk Donation","datePublished":"2014-09-16T16:46:18.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-10T19:08:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"86405 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=86405","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/09/16/the-magic-of-milk-preemies-breastfeeding-and-human-milk-donation/","disqusTitle":"The Magic of Milk: Preemies, Breastfeeding, and Human Milk Donation","path":"/bayareabites/86405/the-magic-of-milk-preemies-breastfeeding-and-human-milk-donation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/infant-mother.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/infant-mother.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Djuna at 10 days (32 weeks gestational age)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87177\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Djuna at 10 days (32 weeks gestational age)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My son’s birth five years ago—in fact, my entire first pregnancy—was a fairy tale narrative, of sorts, and it became the lens through which I viewed what had always been vague and mysterious to me: feeding babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I experienced the usual anxiety about feeding him with milk that my body was (typically, agonizingly) slow to produce. But my milk came in, and he sucked and grew. It never occurred to me to wonder: what would I do if it didn't? But following the harrowing birth of my daughter this past February, I realized that for many babies, especially preemies, it’s a matter of life and death. And I learned, through 51 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive_care_unit\" target=\"_blank\">NICU\u003c/a>) and in the months since, that my milk—in fact, any healthy, lactating mother’s milk—can be frozen, donated and banked to save babies who need it. But I’m getting ahead of my story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2009, though my wife, Carol, and I had decided to give birth at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, our chief desire was to have as little medical intervention as possible. I was 42, old to be doing this in medical terms, but very healthy, and though I wasn’t sure what my capacity for endurance, or my level of pain-tolerance, would turn out to be, I was determined to do what I could to have a drug-free, natural birth. When we checked into the hospital, I refused the standard IV line. My doctor was not on call, so we were assigned Dr. Kurt Wharton, someone we’d never met, which turned out to be the best possible twist of fate, given that, when my regular OB later learned I’d been allowed to push for six hours after a very long labor, said, “I wouldn’t have let you push for more than two.” Exhausted, deliriously happy, and feeling like Athena, I replied, “Well, I’m glad you weren’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after Olin was born, I tried to breastfeed him. As is the case with most women, I didn’t have much milk yet, and the boy began howling with hunger. A nurse brought me a breast pump, a bag of supplies, and suggested I get to work. While it’s a given that the sooner you begin pumping, the sooner your milk will come in, a surprising performance anxiety took hold. I pumped for 20 minutes, only to get a thimbleful of colostrum. The nurse encouraged me, as did the lactation specialist available to all new parents at Alta Bates, that my experience was normal, and that this tiny bit of pre-milk was the best thing for my son’s brand-new immune system. After a few days, we were blissfully breastfeeding, and Carol was able to give our son bottles of pumped milk, an important part of their bonding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward nearly five years to the birth of our daughter, Djuna, which was as dystopian as Olin’s birth was idyllic. Thirty weeks and four days into this pregnancy, which had been punctuated with severe “epigastric” pain—what I later learned was a hallmark symptom of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000890.htm\" target=\"_blank\">HELLP Syndrome\u003c/a>, a life-threatening condition alleviated only by the birth of the baby—I found myself going from the ER to triage to Labor and Delivery in one fell swoop. And the medical interventions, which were absolutely necessary, but nonetheless terrifying, began. Nifedipine for high blood pressure, magnesium sulfate to prevent seizures and labor. Steroid shots for the baby’s under-developed lungs. Then, two days later, Pitocin to force labor to begin, which is akin to what I imagine a cattle prod to the uterus might feel like. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, we still hoped for a vaginal birth, and all my focus went toward this effort. But it was not to be; the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placental_abruption\" target=\"_blank\">placenta began to detach\u003c/a> and an emergency c-section, in which the doctor had 16 minutes to get the baby out, ensued. General anesthesia. Unconsciousness. Complete absence from the birth of my daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I woke up, I was, at turns, angry, shaky and in pain, and grateful to be alive. It would be a full 27 hours before I got to meet Djuna, our nearly 16-inch, two-pound preemie extraordinaire, and begin our arduous road to health and home. But first, I had to pass through my terror of simply touching her. When the nurse asked me if I wanted to hold her, I said, “Am I qualified?” It was a real question. She was beautiful to me in the way that a primordial creature behind glass in a zoo might be: exquisitely designed and alien. But then our eyes locked, and I knew she was my baby, and that she needed the warmth of my body, however wrecked. Her personality emerged right away. She was observant and patient, and declared herself to be someone who was planning to stick around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We learned, through a NICU nurse, that breast milk would be an important factor in how well the baby fared overall, how soon she would be released, and her overall prognosis for her early years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew that breast milk is helpful in the development of the immune system for all babies, but preemies are even more susceptible to infections—and what I didn’t know is that the body automatically produces milk that is for your preemie’s specific gestational age at birth. It has more calories and protein than the milk the same mother would produce for a full-term infant. Because Djuna would be fed through a tube until she could begin “recreational” breastfeeding at 34-35 weeks when her “suck-swallow-breathe” reflex kicked in, it was all pumping, all the time. And it was hard. My body was sluggish from the anesthesia drugs, still reeling from the burn of magnesium sulfate, and hurt from being sliced open. But we were lucky. The NICU and lactation staff knew how to support me in eking out the few drops of milk I got with each attempt, every two hours. At first, I was wheeled up to the NICU carrying my syringe half-full of colostrum, and was always greeted by an eager nurse, saying, “Oh, Djuna will love this,” or some other word of encouragement. The NICU nurses treated this early breast milk like liquid gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not for the patience of hospital staff and my family, as well as my memories of having experienced the long ramp-up to full milk production before, I seriously doubt I would’ve been able to provide milk for baby D. But soon, I was gathering quite a collection in the NICU freezer, up to 24 ounces per day. Since the baby started with scant 5ml servings, I quickly got ahead of her needs. My confidence that I might actually be able to take care of this baby grew, and the pumping became synonymous with my own drive to get the medication residue out of my system and return to equilibrium, a state whose nature I sometimes forgot. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Djuna began taking in more quantity, and finally, at around 38 weeks, began breastfeeding, I thought we were out of the woods as far as basic nutrition went. Then, shortly after we brought Djuna home, Carol discovered that my frozen milk—all 300-plus bottles of it—was high in lipase, an enzyme that, when frozen, imparts a sour, even spoiled, taste to the milk. It isn’t harmful to the baby, but most babies refuse it. In that moment, I envisioned thawing and dumping all that beautiful milk down the drain. What else could be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/breast-milk-donation.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/breast-milk-donation.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen breast milk packaged for shipment to the Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose.\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87174\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frozen breast milk packaged for shipment to the Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two of our mainstay nurses, Stacey and Nieves, had suggested we look into donating it, but I was certain that I wouldn’t qualify, given the number of drugs I had been on for the first month of pumping. So, I didn’t think much more about it, just let the bottles sit in the freezer, taking up space. Then I got a call from the lactation specialist at Alta Bates, who needed us to retrieve our milk that was stored in the NICU’s freezer—200 bottles. When she sensed the despair in my voice, she asked, “Why don’t you donate it to the \u003ca href=\"http://mothersmilk.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mothers' Milk Bank\u003c/a>?” I let her know how many drugs I’d been on when all that milk had been pumped. She pulled out her sheet of donor criteria and, to my surprise, none of my medications was on the forbidden list. My wife and I decided to pursue this idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose bank was founded in 1974, as a non-profit tissue bank, to process and provide human donor milk to babies in need—more than 570,000 ounces in 2013. There are currently 16 similar banks in North America that are recognized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbana.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Milk Banking Association of North America \u003c/a>(HMBANA). The national premature birth rate is 7.6%, and mothers of these babies are often the most compromised in terms of their ability to produce milk. And their babies are at the highest risk for digestive problems, infections, and health problems later in life, such as asthma, diabetes, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 51 days we spent in NICU, I learned about families whose babies depended on donor milk for their survival. One family was so devastated by the loss of one of their preemie twins that the mother was unable to provide milk for the surviving sibling. Another had a chronic illness that prevented her from breastfeeding. One young mother had died of a pulmonary embolism shortly after giving birth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest babies often have trouble digesting formula, and this can lead to consequences ranging from mild discomfort to a life-threatening condition known as NEC (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001148.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Necrotizing enterocolitis\u003c/a>), an inflammatory disease that kills intestinal tissue and often requires surgery to repair perforations. Processed human milk, which has been pasteurized to eliminate potentially harmful bacteria, is the ideal first food for these little ones. And though pasteurization kills some beneficial antibodies, the milk still contains immune-boosting properties that formula does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Lindsley, NICU Manager at Alta Bates, says that between 10 and 15 percent of preemies born before the gestational age of 32 weeks who are admitted to the NICU receive donor milk. Occasionally, there is a shortage, and in these cases, babies who are most in need are prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process for donation is easy and efficient. I was required to have a blood test for several infectious diseases, as well as disclose any medications I had been taking. In about an hour after my results came back clean, my frozen milk was packed up and shipped to the San Jose bank. I love knowing that it will go to a preemie, who, much like my daughter, needed human milk to get her through the difficult first months of life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information about milk donation, and the various ways you can help, contact \u003ca href=\"http://mothersmilk.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mothers' Milk Bank\u003c/a>; (408) 998-4550.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/86405/the-magic-of-milk-preemies-breastfeeding-and-human-milk-donation","authors":["5575"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246"],"tags":["bayareabites_13721","bayareabites_13722","bayareabites_13806","bayareabites_13720","bayareabites_13724","bayareabites_1621","bayareabites_13723","bayareabites_2058"],"featImg":"bayareabites_87173","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_86660":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_86660","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"86660","score":null,"sort":[1409068350000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pregnant-heres-why-that-tuna-sandwich-might-be-a-bad-choice","title":"Pregnant? Here’s Why That Tuna Sandwich Might Be a Bad Choice ","publishDate":1409068350,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/shutterstock_64833406-e1408596968973-680x367.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/shutterstock_64833406-e1408596968973-680x367.jpg\" alt=\"Tuna Fish sandwich.\" width=\"680\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86663\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuna Fish Sandwich. Photo courtesy of Civil Eats.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/author/rcernansky/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Cernansky\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/08/21/pregnant-heres-why-that-tuna-sandwich-might-be-a-bad-choice/\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Eats\u003c/a> (8/21/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm397929.htm\" target=\"_blank\">new dietary guidelines\u003c/a> for fish consumption. They’re very similar to the 2004 guidelines, with a few notable changes for pregnant women. The FDA kept its recommended limit of 12 ounces of fish per week for these women–but also established, for the first time, a minimum recommendation of eight ounces, saying pregnant and breastfeeding women should “eat more fish that is lower in mercury in order to gain important developmental and health benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FDA warns against the four types of fish with the highest mercury levels–swordfish, shark, king mackerel, and Gulf of Mexico tilefish (with marlin and orange roughy under consideration to be added to that list)–it issues no such caution for tuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report in the October 2014 issue of \u003ca href=\"http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/10/can-eating-the-wrong-fish-put-you-at-higher-risk-for-mercury-exposure/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports\u003c/a>, however, high tuna consumption may do more harm than good. Using FDA data, the group found that mercury levels in canned tuna can be quite high: “Up around .8 or .9 parts per million, which is close to the Do Not Eat list,” says Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the general population, the risk from tuna is relatively low–because the body processes and excretes mercury over time, if it’s not ingested continuously at high levels. The issue for pregnant women, explains Halloran, is the potential for “spikes” in mercury consumption because there’s no way to tell which cans are higher or lower in mercury. There’s also no way to know when you’ve reached the upper limit of safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recommend that for women who are actually pregnant, that they not eat any tuna for the duration of the pregnancy,” says Halloran. “Because you just never know when you’re going to get one of these high-mercury cans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while one spike of mercury isn’t deadly for a fetus, it poses the risk of “subtle effects on neurological development,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Consumer Reports agrees with most of the other recommendations FDA has proposed, the group has some sharp criticism of the agency’s decision to remove an easy-to-understand chart illustrating the mercury content of various fish and replace it with an alphabetical list of fish that omits the quantity of mercury contained in each fish. Consumer Reports sent a \u003ca href=\"https://consumersunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FDA_Letter_Mercury_Levels_Fish.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> to Michael Taylor, FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Foods, urging the agency to immediately re-post the chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/CR-Mercury-in-Fish-GRAPHIC-1024x1024.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/CR-Mercury-in-Fish-GRAPHIC-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Good Choices If You Want More Fish. Illustrations: Joe McKendry\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86664\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">lllustrations: Joe McKendry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than grant interviews, the FDA would only issue statements in response to the report. The agency said: “The Consumer Reports analysis is limited in that it focuses exclusively on the mercury levels in fish without considering the known positive nutritional benefits attributed to fish.” Its explanation for removing the chart from its website was similar: “The current science no longer supported categorizing fish solely by mercury levels. The reference chart was also developed for researchers and FDA staff and never intended to be used as a guide for consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Halloran unsatisfied. By recommending that women of childbearing age eat 8 to 12 ounces per week of lower-mercury fish, she argues, the FDA does in fact categorize fish on the basis of mercury levels. “How can they say the science doesn’t support such categorizing, when FDA itself talks about the category?” she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosumer Reports would also like the agency to tell consumers which fish they think consumers should eat. “FDA only gives a few examples of low-mercury fish in their guidance–many equally-low mercury fish are not mentioned,” says Halloran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those trying to eat low-mercury seafood, Halloran says the Consumer Reports maintains their own list of nearly 20 safe choices (see chart above), and all are approved by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\">Seafood Watch\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the Writer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRachel Cernansky is a Denver-based freelance journalist, primarily covering the environment, social justice, and nutrition. Her work has been published by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, National Geographic News, Grist, \u003cem>The Christian Science Monitor\u003c/em>, 5280 (The Denver Magazine), \u003cem>Real Simple, Nutrition Business Journal, The Colorado Independent\u003c/em>, The Daily Camera, Dowser, Satya and others.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"According to a report in the October 2014 issue of Consumer Reports high tuna consumption may do more harm than good for pregnant women. This finding challenges the FDA guidelines that do not include tuna on the list of fish to avoid due to high levels of mercury.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1409068350,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":756},"headData":{"title":"Pregnant? Here’s Why That Tuna Sandwich Might Be a Bad Choice | KQED","description":"According to a report in the October 2014 issue of Consumer Reports high tuna consumption may do more harm than good for pregnant women. This finding challenges the FDA guidelines that do not include tuna on the list of fish to avoid due to high levels of mercury.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Pregnant? Here’s Why That Tuna Sandwich Might Be a Bad Choice ","datePublished":"2014-08-26T15:52:30.000Z","dateModified":"2014-08-26T15:52:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"86660 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=86660","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/08/26/pregnant-heres-why-that-tuna-sandwich-might-be-a-bad-choice/","disqusTitle":"Pregnant? Here’s Why That Tuna Sandwich Might Be a Bad Choice ","path":"/bayareabites/86660/pregnant-heres-why-that-tuna-sandwich-might-be-a-bad-choice","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/shutterstock_64833406-e1408596968973-680x367.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/shutterstock_64833406-e1408596968973-680x367.jpg\" alt=\"Tuna Fish sandwich.\" width=\"680\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86663\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuna Fish Sandwich. Photo courtesy of Civil Eats.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/author/rcernansky/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Cernansky\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/08/21/pregnant-heres-why-that-tuna-sandwich-might-be-a-bad-choice/\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Eats\u003c/a> (8/21/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm397929.htm\" target=\"_blank\">new dietary guidelines\u003c/a> for fish consumption. They’re very similar to the 2004 guidelines, with a few notable changes for pregnant women. The FDA kept its recommended limit of 12 ounces of fish per week for these women–but also established, for the first time, a minimum recommendation of eight ounces, saying pregnant and breastfeeding women should “eat more fish that is lower in mercury in order to gain important developmental and health benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FDA warns against the four types of fish with the highest mercury levels–swordfish, shark, king mackerel, and Gulf of Mexico tilefish (with marlin and orange roughy under consideration to be added to that list)–it issues no such caution for tuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report in the October 2014 issue of \u003ca href=\"http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/10/can-eating-the-wrong-fish-put-you-at-higher-risk-for-mercury-exposure/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports\u003c/a>, however, high tuna consumption may do more harm than good. Using FDA data, the group found that mercury levels in canned tuna can be quite high: “Up around .8 or .9 parts per million, which is close to the Do Not Eat list,” says Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the general population, the risk from tuna is relatively low–because the body processes and excretes mercury over time, if it’s not ingested continuously at high levels. The issue for pregnant women, explains Halloran, is the potential for “spikes” in mercury consumption because there’s no way to tell which cans are higher or lower in mercury. There’s also no way to know when you’ve reached the upper limit of safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recommend that for women who are actually pregnant, that they not eat any tuna for the duration of the pregnancy,” says Halloran. “Because you just never know when you’re going to get one of these high-mercury cans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while one spike of mercury isn’t deadly for a fetus, it poses the risk of “subtle effects on neurological development,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Consumer Reports agrees with most of the other recommendations FDA has proposed, the group has some sharp criticism of the agency’s decision to remove an easy-to-understand chart illustrating the mercury content of various fish and replace it with an alphabetical list of fish that omits the quantity of mercury contained in each fish. Consumer Reports sent a \u003ca href=\"https://consumersunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FDA_Letter_Mercury_Levels_Fish.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> to Michael Taylor, FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Foods, urging the agency to immediately re-post the chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/CR-Mercury-in-Fish-GRAPHIC-1024x1024.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/CR-Mercury-in-Fish-GRAPHIC-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Good Choices If You Want More Fish. Illustrations: Joe McKendry\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86664\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">lllustrations: Joe McKendry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than grant interviews, the FDA would only issue statements in response to the report. The agency said: “The Consumer Reports analysis is limited in that it focuses exclusively on the mercury levels in fish without considering the known positive nutritional benefits attributed to fish.” Its explanation for removing the chart from its website was similar: “The current science no longer supported categorizing fish solely by mercury levels. The reference chart was also developed for researchers and FDA staff and never intended to be used as a guide for consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Halloran unsatisfied. By recommending that women of childbearing age eat 8 to 12 ounces per week of lower-mercury fish, she argues, the FDA does in fact categorize fish on the basis of mercury levels. “How can they say the science doesn’t support such categorizing, when FDA itself talks about the category?” she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosumer Reports would also like the agency to tell consumers which fish they think consumers should eat. “FDA only gives a few examples of low-mercury fish in their guidance–many equally-low mercury fish are not mentioned,” says Halloran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those trying to eat low-mercury seafood, Halloran says the Consumer Reports maintains their own list of nearly 20 safe choices (see chart above), and all are approved by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\">Seafood Watch\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the Writer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRachel Cernansky is a Denver-based freelance journalist, primarily covering the environment, social justice, and nutrition. Her work has been published by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, National Geographic News, Grist, \u003cem>The Christian Science Monitor\u003c/em>, 5280 (The Denver Magazine), \u003cem>Real Simple, Nutrition Business Journal, The Colorado Independent\u003c/em>, The Daily Camera, Dowser, Satya and others.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/86660/pregnant-heres-why-that-tuna-sandwich-might-be-a-bad-choice","authors":["5583"],"categories":["bayareabites_13718","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_13745","bayareabites_2608","bayareabites_376","bayareabites_8984","bayareabites_2058","bayareabites_1768","bayareabites_1956"],"featImg":"bayareabites_86663","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_81061":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_81061","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"81061","score":null,"sort":[1398833490000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes","title":"Mom's Diet Right Before Pregnancy Can Alter Baby's Genes","publishDate":1398833490,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/72362257_wide-a620920319aa8dab3f3f831eea9b152d343dc70f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/72362257_wide-a620920319aa8dab3f3f831eea9b152d343dc70f.jpg\" alt=\"Even before you were a twinkle in your mom's eye, what she ate — and didn't eat enough of — may have helped shape you. Photo: George Marks/Getty Images\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81062\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even before you were a twinkle in your mom's eye, what she ate — and didn't eat enough of — may have helped shape you. Photo: George Marks/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/29/307787984/moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes\">Shots at NPR Health\u003c/a> (4/29/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant women have heard it time and time again: What you eat during those nine months can have long-term effects on your child's health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heck, one study even \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth\">found\u003c/a> that when pregnant women eat a diverse diet, the resulting babies are less picky in the foods they choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about mom's eating habits before she even knows she's pregnant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nutritional deficiencies right at the time of conception can alter a baby's genes permanently, scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4746\">report\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, published in \u003cem>Nature Communications\u003c/em>, is the first to show that an environmental factor during the first few days of development can change DNA long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers didn't look at how these genetic changes affect overall fetal development or the baby's health later in life. And they analyzed only six genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's growing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/23/224387744/how-a-pregnant-womans-choices-could-shape-a-childs-health\">evidence\u003c/a> from other studies that similar types of genetic changes may help determine a child's risk for some diseases, including diabetes, mental disorders and autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Can diet affect other genes? What's the biological impact of those [DNA] modifications? At the moment we don't know the answer to those questions,\" says nutritionist \u003ca href=\"http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/prentice.andrew\">Andrew Prentice\u003c/a>, who contributed to the study. \"But subsequent research we have — and haven't [yet] published — says it does matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we're not talking about altering the DNA code itself — you know, the building blocks of genes, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/scitable/content/the-four-bases-atcg-6491969\">ATGCs\u003c/a>? Rather, Prentice says the dietary effects he and his team have found seem to be changing whether genes are turned on or off in that earliest stage of embryonic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This on-and-off switch is controlled by decorating the DNA with a special tag, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-role-of-methylation-in-gene-expression-1070\">methylation\u003c/a>. How much the six genes got tagged in the developing embryo depended on the levels of a few micronutrients in the mom's blood at the time of conception, Prentice and his team found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team examined several B vitamins and nutrients associated with them. They couldn't pinpoint exactly which ones were most important. But in general, when several of these nutrients, including vitamin B2, were at lower levels in mom's blood, the six genes had less methylation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vitamin levels [in all the women] weren't way out of the normal range either,\" Prentice says. \"If you took the blood to your doctor, he would say they were normal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also found a link between the DNA methylation and mom's body mass index at the time of conception. The heavier the mother, the less methylation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again, none of the moms were obese. \"There were no overweight women in this group,\" Prentice says. \"Even then, we found a strong link between the mother's BMI and methylation patterns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, scientists have observed a similar phenomenon in mice: Diet and weight, at the time of conception, alter a baby's DNA methylation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To check for the effect in people, Prentice and his team turned to women in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ga.html\">Gambia\u003c/a>. Families there rely on their gardens for most of their food, he says, \"so the weather patterns completely change the foods eaten throughout the year.\" In the rainy season, residents get fewer calories but more nutrient-rich vegetables. In the dry season, they have more calories but dishes are less vitamin-packed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the study is great,\" says Duke University's \u003ca href=\"http://www.genome.duke.edu/directory/faculty/murphy/\">Susan Murphy\u003c/a>, who wasn't involved in the work. \"We've hypothesized that this time right around conception is a critical period. It's pretty exciting to see it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the team only looked at six genes, Murphy says she thinks the effect shown in these stretches of DNA could reflect what's happening throughout the genome. \"They could be the canary in the coal mine,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Vitamin deficiencies near the time of conception change which genes get turned on during early development, scientists find.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398833711,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":685},"headData":{"title":"Mom's Diet Right Before Pregnancy Can Alter Baby's Genes | KQED","description":"Vitamin deficiencies near the time of conception change which genes get turned on during early development, scientists find.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Mom's Diet Right Before Pregnancy Can Alter Baby's Genes","datePublished":"2014-04-30T04:51:30.000Z","dateModified":"2014-04-30T04:55:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"81061 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=81061","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/04/29/moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes/","disqusTitle":"Mom's Diet Right Before Pregnancy Can Alter Baby's Genes","nprByline":"Michaeleen Doucleff","nprStoryId":"307787984","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=307787984&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/29/307787984/moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes?ft=3&f=307787984","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:57:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:14:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:57:27 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/81061/moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/72362257_wide-a620920319aa8dab3f3f831eea9b152d343dc70f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/72362257_wide-a620920319aa8dab3f3f831eea9b152d343dc70f.jpg\" alt=\"Even before you were a twinkle in your mom's eye, what she ate — and didn't eat enough of — may have helped shape you. 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Photo: George Marks/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/29/307787984/moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes\">Shots at NPR Health\u003c/a> (4/29/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant women have heard it time and time again: What you eat during those nine months can have long-term effects on your child's health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heck, one study even \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth\">found\u003c/a> that when pregnant women eat a diverse diet, the resulting babies are less picky in the foods they choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about mom's eating habits before she even knows she's pregnant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nutritional deficiencies right at the time of conception can alter a baby's genes permanently, scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4746\">report\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, published in \u003cem>Nature Communications\u003c/em>, is the first to show that an environmental factor during the first few days of development can change DNA long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers didn't look at how these genetic changes affect overall fetal development or the baby's health later in life. And they analyzed only six genes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's growing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/23/224387744/how-a-pregnant-womans-choices-could-shape-a-childs-health\">evidence\u003c/a> from other studies that similar types of genetic changes may help determine a child's risk for some diseases, including diabetes, mental disorders and autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Can diet affect other genes? What's the biological impact of those [DNA] modifications? At the moment we don't know the answer to those questions,\" says nutritionist \u003ca href=\"http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/prentice.andrew\">Andrew Prentice\u003c/a>, who contributed to the study. \"But subsequent research we have — and haven't [yet] published — says it does matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we're not talking about altering the DNA code itself — you know, the building blocks of genes, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/scitable/content/the-four-bases-atcg-6491969\">ATGCs\u003c/a>? Rather, Prentice says the dietary effects he and his team have found seem to be changing whether genes are turned on or off in that earliest stage of embryonic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This on-and-off switch is controlled by decorating the DNA with a special tag, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-role-of-methylation-in-gene-expression-1070\">methylation\u003c/a>. How much the six genes got tagged in the developing embryo depended on the levels of a few micronutrients in the mom's blood at the time of conception, Prentice and his team found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team examined several B vitamins and nutrients associated with them. They couldn't pinpoint exactly which ones were most important. But in general, when several of these nutrients, including vitamin B2, were at lower levels in mom's blood, the six genes had less methylation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vitamin levels [in all the women] weren't way out of the normal range either,\" Prentice says. \"If you took the blood to your doctor, he would say they were normal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also found a link between the DNA methylation and mom's body mass index at the time of conception. The heavier the mother, the less methylation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again, none of the moms were obese. \"There were no overweight women in this group,\" Prentice says. \"Even then, we found a strong link between the mother's BMI and methylation patterns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, scientists have observed a similar phenomenon in mice: Diet and weight, at the time of conception, alter a baby's DNA methylation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To check for the effect in people, Prentice and his team turned to women in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ga.html\">Gambia\u003c/a>. Families there rely on their gardens for most of their food, he says, \"so the weather patterns completely change the foods eaten throughout the year.\" In the rainy season, residents get fewer calories but more nutrient-rich vegetables. In the dry season, they have more calories but dishes are less vitamin-packed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the study is great,\" says Duke University's \u003ca href=\"http://www.genome.duke.edu/directory/faculty/murphy/\">Susan Murphy\u003c/a>, who wasn't involved in the work. \"We've hypothesized that this time right around conception is a critical period. It's pretty exciting to see it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the team only looked at six genes, Murphy says she thinks the effect shown in these stretches of DNA could reflect what's happening throughout the genome. \"They could be the canary in the coal mine,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/81061/moms-diet-right-before-pregnancy-can-alter-babys-genes","authors":["byline_bayareabites_81061"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_13294","bayareabites_13296","bayareabites_13295","bayareabites_2058","bayareabites_12139","bayareabites_11018","bayareabites_11318","bayareabites_13293"],"featImg":"bayareabites_81062","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_60242":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_60242","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"60242","score":null,"sort":[1366311696000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy","title":"Study Finds No Harm In Occasional Drink During Pregnancy","publishDate":1366311696,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/17/177644483/study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/18/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60249\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/pregnant-drinking.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/pregnant-drinking-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"A pregnant woman holds a glass of wine. Photo: iStockphoto.com\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60249\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pregnant woman holds a glass of wine.\u003cbr> Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Is the occasional glass of wine or beer OK for moms-to-be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a new \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.12246/abstract\">study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology\u003c/em>, there doesn't seem to be any measurable risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that drinking up to two alcoholic beverages per week during pregnancy is not linked to developmental problems in children. But even the study's authors caution that abstaining from alcohol is still best for mothers-to-be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research was done at the University College London, using data collected as part of the Millennium Cohort Study. The researchers looked at about 10,000 children born in the U.K. between 2000 and 2001. When the children were 7 years old, they were given math, reading and spatial skills tests. And parents completed questionnaires about the children's emotional and social development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers found that children born to women who consumed a little alcohol during pregnancy had higher test scores on some tests compared with children of nondrinkers. But the researchers conclude that most of these differences were too small to be statistically significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we have followed these children for the first seven years of their lives, further research is needed to detect whether any adverse effects of low levels of alcohol consumption in pregnancy emerge later in childhood,\" professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-iris-project/iris/staffprofile.php?ref=YKELL78\">Yvonne Kelly\u003c/a>, of the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies (\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucl.ac.uk/icls\">ICLS)\u003c/a> at University College London, and co-author of the study, said in a statement released by the journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health in the U.K. recommends that pregnant women avoid alcohol altogether. But if moms-to-be do choose to drink, the government's advice is \"to not have more than one to two units of alcohol once or twice a week, and not to get drunk,\" according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2270.aspx?CategoryID=54#close\">this\u003c/a> U.K. government site. Under the British government's definition, a small 4-ounce glass of wine is about one-and-a-half units.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts on fetal alcohol syndrome in the U.S. aren't so convinced by the new findings. \"Failure to see an effect doesn't mean that there isn't one, or that drinking in pregnancy is safe,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.med.wayne.edu/prb/fellowship_faculty_sokol.htm\">Dr. Robert Sokol\u003c/a>, director of the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at Wayne State University, in an email to The Salt. He explains that the ability to detect effects of low levels of alcohol exposure depends largely on what's measured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another shortcoming of the study is that people tend to under-report alcohol consumption when they're questioned about it, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/10126/david-garry/\">Dr. David Garry\u003c/a> of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. And in this study, women weren't asked to recall how much alcohol they drank until their child was 9 months old, so memories may not have been so clear. It's \"not a convincing study,\" says Garry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a woman has had some drinks in pregnancy, I would reassure her that the [child's] development is likely to be normal,\" writes Garry in an email to The Salt. But overall, he says, drinking does pose a risk and should be avoided during pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Sokol agrees. \"It's still the case that it's safest not to drink during pregnancy,\" Sokol says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The study looked at about 10,000 British children born at the turn of this century and found no developmental problems among those whose mothers drank moderately during pregnancy. But even the study's authors caution that abstaining from alcohol is still best for mothers-to-be.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1366311696,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":574},"headData":{"title":"Study Finds No Harm In Occasional Drink During Pregnancy | KQED","description":"The study looked at about 10,000 British children born at the turn of this century and found no developmental problems among those whose mothers drank moderately during pregnancy. But even the study's authors caution that abstaining from alcohol is still best for mothers-to-be.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Study Finds No Harm In Occasional Drink During Pregnancy","datePublished":"2013-04-18T19:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2013-04-18T19:01:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"60242 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=60242","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/18/study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy/","disqusTitle":"Study Finds No Harm In Occasional Drink During Pregnancy","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"177644483","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=177644483&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/17/177644483/study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy?ft=3&f=177644483","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:21:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:54:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:21:58 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/60242/study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/17/177644483/study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/18/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60249\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/pregnant-drinking.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/pregnant-drinking-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"A pregnant woman holds a glass of wine. Photo: iStockphoto.com\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60249\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pregnant woman holds a glass of wine.\u003cbr> Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Is the occasional glass of wine or beer OK for moms-to-be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a new \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.12246/abstract\">study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology\u003c/em>, there doesn't seem to be any measurable risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that drinking up to two alcoholic beverages per week during pregnancy is not linked to developmental problems in children. But even the study's authors caution that abstaining from alcohol is still best for mothers-to-be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research was done at the University College London, using data collected as part of the Millennium Cohort Study. The researchers looked at about 10,000 children born in the U.K. between 2000 and 2001. When the children were 7 years old, they were given math, reading and spatial skills tests. And parents completed questionnaires about the children's emotional and social development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers found that children born to women who consumed a little alcohol during pregnancy had higher test scores on some tests compared with children of nondrinkers. But the researchers conclude that most of these differences were too small to be statistically significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we have followed these children for the first seven years of their lives, further research is needed to detect whether any adverse effects of low levels of alcohol consumption in pregnancy emerge later in childhood,\" professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-iris-project/iris/staffprofile.php?ref=YKELL78\">Yvonne Kelly\u003c/a>, of the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies (\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucl.ac.uk/icls\">ICLS)\u003c/a> at University College London, and co-author of the study, said in a statement released by the journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health in the U.K. recommends that pregnant women avoid alcohol altogether. But if moms-to-be do choose to drink, the government's advice is \"to not have more than one to two units of alcohol once or twice a week, and not to get drunk,\" according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2270.aspx?CategoryID=54#close\">this\u003c/a> U.K. government site. Under the British government's definition, a small 4-ounce glass of wine is about one-and-a-half units.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts on fetal alcohol syndrome in the U.S. aren't so convinced by the new findings. \"Failure to see an effect doesn't mean that there isn't one, or that drinking in pregnancy is safe,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.med.wayne.edu/prb/fellowship_faculty_sokol.htm\">Dr. Robert Sokol\u003c/a>, director of the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at Wayne State University, in an email to The Salt. He explains that the ability to detect effects of low levels of alcohol exposure depends largely on what's measured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another shortcoming of the study is that people tend to under-report alcohol consumption when they're questioned about it, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/10126/david-garry/\">Dr. David Garry\u003c/a> of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. And in this study, women weren't asked to recall how much alcohol they drank until their child was 9 months old, so memories may not have been so clear. It's \"not a convincing study,\" says Garry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a woman has had some drinks in pregnancy, I would reassure her that the [child's] development is likely to be normal,\" writes Garry in an email to The Salt. But overall, he says, drinking does pose a risk and should be avoided during pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Sokol agrees. \"It's still the case that it's safest not to drink during pregnancy,\" Sokol says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/60242/study-finds-no-harm-in-occasional-drink-during-pregnancy","authors":["byline_bayareabites_60242"],"categories":["bayareabites_301","bayareabites_1244","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_119"],"tags":["bayareabites_8359","bayareabites_8276","bayareabites_2058","bayareabites_1768","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_60243","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_41766":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_41766","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"41766","score":null,"sort":[1334941200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-a-hmong-healing-ceremony-a-feast","title":"After a Hmong Healing Ceremony, A Feast","publishDate":1334941200,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman560.jpg\" alt=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" title=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41807\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s, when the CIA retreated from their “\u003ca title=\"Secret War Laos\" href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html\">Secret War\u003c/a>” in Laos. Today the Central Valley is a hub for Hmong refugees. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices with them -- and their recipes. At \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">a traditional Hmong ceremony\u003c/a> in the small town of Winton, a few dozen family members gathered to honor a young, pregnant Hmong woman -- Leena Yang. The ceremony was to ensure the healthy birth of the baby and a safe delivery for the mother. \"It's like a healing, prevention and protection together. The shaman welcomes the baby soul to the world,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\">Changvang Her\u003c/a>, a Hmong translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar560.jpg\" alt=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" title=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41813\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A traditional Hmong altar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First the shaman, May Yang, and her husband prepare an altar with offerings of eggs, uncooked rice, paper money and incense. The eggs, the shaman explains through an interpreter, are toys for the shaman spirits to play with. The rice is for the spirits to eat if they get hungry. Family members then spread a plastic sheet across the living floor, and carefully laid a slaughtered pig on the sheet. The pig had a rope wrapped around its belly that led to another rope, wrapped around the belly of a pregnant woman. For the next two hours the shaman chanted while she swayed back and forth and played ceremonial bells. The chants, she later explained, are prayers to the spirit world, offering the slaughtered pig as a sacrifice in exchange for a healthy birth. Throughout the ceremony, the shaman's husband burns pieces of the paper money as offerings to help the shaman pass through different spiritual levels, or realms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells560.jpg\" alt=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\" title=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn babys spirit.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41816\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony the men in the family took the pig to the garage to prepare it for the feast, while the women cooked in the kitchen and in a makeshift kitchen in the backyard. The first dish they began to prepare was the \"pork and cabbage,\" a pork and rice noodle dish wrapped in steamed cabbage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" title=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41773\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" title=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41774\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" title=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41776\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" title=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41777\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" title=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41778\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" title=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41779\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dish was prepared only for the mother-to-be: a freshly killed chicken. The chicken, cut in half, represents the separation of the mother and baby’s spirits and is part of the ceremony. The Hmong believe that mother and daughter are joined in one life, and soon before birth you must split them into two lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" title=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41780\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" title=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41781\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" title=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41782\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" title=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41783\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" title=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41784\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" title=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41785\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final, and most complicated dish was the trout, which was mostly prepared in the yard while the shaman performed the ceremony in the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" title=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41789\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" title=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41790\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41792\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" title=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41793\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" title=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41794\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women of the family -- who did the vast majority of the cooking -- proudly pose with the pregnant lady-of-honor in front of the feast they prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-women-photo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-women-photo560.jpg\" alt=\"Hmong women pose in front of the feast.\" title=\"Hmong women pose in front of the feast.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41823\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the men sit down to eat, while most of the women eat in the kitchen or the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/men-eating.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/men-eating560.jpg\" alt=\"Men sit down to eat.\" title=\"After the ceremony, the men in the family sit down to enjoy the feast.\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41826\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the feast, the mother-in-law warmly thanks the shaman and her husband. As they head to the front door, the shaman is gifted a bag filled with dozens of steamed pork and cabbage rolls to take home to her own family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit KQED's State of Health blog to read about how \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">Hmong shamans in Merced are being trained in the basics of western medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201205041630/d\">Traditional Hmong Healers Learning to Partner With Valley Doctors\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205041630d.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205041630d.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices -- and their recipes. At traditional Hmong healing ceremony in rural Merced, family members feasted on pork and cabbage rolls, fresh fish, and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1336288594,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":579},"headData":{"title":"After a Hmong Healing Ceremony, A Feast | KQED","description":"Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices -- and their recipes. At traditional Hmong healing ceremony in rural Merced, family members feasted on pork and cabbage rolls, fresh fish, and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"After a Hmong Healing Ceremony, A Feast","datePublished":"2012-04-20T17:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2012-05-06T07:16:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"41766 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=41766","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/20/after-a-hmong-healing-ceremony-a-feast/","disqusTitle":"After a Hmong Healing Ceremony, A Feast","path":"/bayareabites/41766/after-a-hmong-healing-ceremony-a-feast","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman560.jpg\" alt=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" title=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41807\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s, when the CIA retreated from their “\u003ca title=\"Secret War Laos\" href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html\">Secret War\u003c/a>” in Laos. Today the Central Valley is a hub for Hmong refugees. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices with them -- and their recipes. At \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">a traditional Hmong ceremony\u003c/a> in the small town of Winton, a few dozen family members gathered to honor a young, pregnant Hmong woman -- Leena Yang. The ceremony was to ensure the healthy birth of the baby and a safe delivery for the mother. \"It's like a healing, prevention and protection together. The shaman welcomes the baby soul to the world,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\">Changvang Her\u003c/a>, a Hmong translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar560.jpg\" alt=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" title=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41813\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A traditional Hmong altar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First the shaman, May Yang, and her husband prepare an altar with offerings of eggs, uncooked rice, paper money and incense. The eggs, the shaman explains through an interpreter, are toys for the shaman spirits to play with. The rice is for the spirits to eat if they get hungry. Family members then spread a plastic sheet across the living floor, and carefully laid a slaughtered pig on the sheet. The pig had a rope wrapped around its belly that led to another rope, wrapped around the belly of a pregnant woman. For the next two hours the shaman chanted while she swayed back and forth and played ceremonial bells. The chants, she later explained, are prayers to the spirit world, offering the slaughtered pig as a sacrifice in exchange for a healthy birth. Throughout the ceremony, the shaman's husband burns pieces of the paper money as offerings to help the shaman pass through different spiritual levels, or realms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells560.jpg\" alt=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\" title=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn babys spirit.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41816\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony the men in the family took the pig to the garage to prepare it for the feast, while the women cooked in the kitchen and in a makeshift kitchen in the backyard. The first dish they began to prepare was the \"pork and cabbage,\" a pork and rice noodle dish wrapped in steamed cabbage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" title=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41773\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" title=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41774\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" title=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41776\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" title=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41777\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" title=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41778\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" title=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41779\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dish was prepared only for the mother-to-be: a freshly killed chicken. The chicken, cut in half, represents the separation of the mother and baby’s spirits and is part of the ceremony. The Hmong believe that mother and daughter are joined in one life, and soon before birth you must split them into two lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" title=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41780\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" title=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41781\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" title=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41782\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" title=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41783\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" title=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41784\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" title=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41785\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final, and most complicated dish was the trout, which was mostly prepared in the yard while the shaman performed the ceremony in the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" title=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41789\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" title=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41790\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41792\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" title=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41793\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" title=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41794\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women of the family -- who did the vast majority of the cooking -- proudly pose with the pregnant lady-of-honor in front of the feast they prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-women-photo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-women-photo560.jpg\" alt=\"Hmong women pose in front of the feast.\" title=\"Hmong women pose in front of the feast.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41823\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the men sit down to eat, while most of the women eat in the kitchen or the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/men-eating.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/men-eating560.jpg\" alt=\"Men sit down to eat.\" title=\"After the ceremony, the men in the family sit down to enjoy the feast.\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41826\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the feast, the mother-in-law warmly thanks the shaman and her husband. As they head to the front door, the shaman is gifted a bag filled with dozens of steamed pork and cabbage rolls to take home to her own family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit KQED's State of Health blog to read about how \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">Hmong shamans in Merced are being trained in the basics of western medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201205041630/d\">Traditional Hmong Healers Learning to Partner With Valley Doctors\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205041630d.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205041630d.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/41766/after-a-hmong-healing-ceremony-a-feast","authors":["46"],"categories":["bayareabites_2998","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_45","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_10337","bayareabites_10335","bayareabites_2058","bayareabites_1768","bayareabites_10345","bayareabites_10336"],"featImg":"bayareabites_41807","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_3938":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_3938","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"3938","score":null,"sort":[1243371721000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pregnant-pause-the-chronicles-of-nausea","title":"Pregnant Pause: The Chronicles of Nausea","publishDate":1243371721,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/05/water.jpg\" alt=\"water\" title=\"water\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3939\">I'm going to start everyone off with a \"duh\" today: Every pregnancy is different. Okay? I've put that out there, and it's my disclaimer for this post. I am acknowledging that what worked for you or me might not work for your sister or friend. However, we can take comfort in the fact that SOME things might work for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I now have three pregnant friends, who are all a gradation of weeks behind me in their pregnancies, so since I'm the one to run the gauntlet first, I'm the one who answers questions and gives out what advice I can. I like it. I like sharing what I've learned, especially if what I learned can provide even one hour of relief to the expectant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By nature, I'm a fairly nauseous person. That is, I'm easily nauseated -- cars, cabs, planes, naval gazing, \u003ci>American Idol\u003c/i> -- will all do it to me. I've been this way for awhile and so learned early on in life that Dramamine was my friend, my confident, my constant companion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had feared that pregnancy might be much worse for me because of this disposition. (Remembering a ten-year-old \u003ci>New Yorker\u003c/i> article that talked about pregnant women who have uncontrollable nausea and vomiting to the point of hospitalization didn't help allay my worst fears.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, I was wrong. Aside from those annoying people, who don't ever get any morning, noon, or night sickness, I don't think my nausea was any worse than what a lot of others experience in 1st trimester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most valuable thing I learned was that the nausea was a result of a blood sugar drop -- explaining why it's worse in the morning and therefore given the totally fallacious name of \"Morning Sickness\" -- so as long as I had enough food in me at all times, I'd be okay. In order to stave off what was for me 24-hour nausea, I had to eat every two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My stomach was a clock. It would even wake me up in the middle of the night to warn me of waves of impending ickiness. I started keeping food next to my bed because, as the books warned, even the mere act of walking to the kitchen was a lot of effort for a body that was working hard to build a baby from scratch. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring the resulting crumbs, crackers and almonds were my food of choice for middle-of-the-night noshing. Sometimes cookies for a valuable quick sugar kick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Food\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carr's Table Water Crackers:\u003c/b> Bland, bland, bland, but they will line your stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Almonds:\u003c/b> I still carry the Diamond resealable bags of these around with me in case of emergency. I learned early on that the rush of protein these nuts gave me was a sure-fire way to get ahead of the nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Apples and Cheddar Cheese:\u003c/b> This was pretty much my lunch for seven weeks. Apples have always been a stomach-soother for me and the cheese was that needed protein. The cheese wasn't fancy -- as you might have expected from an old \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2006/02/16/pssst-wanna-buy-some-cheese/\">cheesemonger\u003c/a> -- it was just bulk, yellow, grocery store cheddar. Comfort food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Grilled Cheese Sandwiches:\u003c/b> Ah, the ultimate in comfort food. Yes, I ate a lot of these in first trimester because I couldn't handle anything else. What is it about grilled cheese sandwiches and why are they so comforting for so many of us? Is it all rooted in childhood? With a lot of psychoanalysis, I'm sure we could get to the bottom of it some day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Totino's Frozen Pizza:\u003c/b> Again, maybe it's going back to childhood and what we all individually define as comfort food, but Totino's was something we always had at birthday parties when I was a kid. Totino's Cheese Pizza was my Thanksgiving turkey this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Drink\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gleaning facts from \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurantwhore.com/\">friends\u003c/a> and books and the ever-opinionated Internet, I discovered that sour flavors were great for beating off nausea. I also knew from my long relationship with motion sickness that ginger was also a good curative. Plus, it's very important to stay hydrated throughout pregnancy, so get that liquid into yourself any way you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>San Pellegrino Limonata:\u003c/b> Not sweet or sugary, this \"lemonade\" has sparkling water to soothe the stomach riots and a nice bracing citrus edge to it. I love this stuff and drink it regularly now. With some bruised fresh mint, it makes an easy and refreshing mocktail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fever-tree.com/\">\u003cb>Fever-Tree Ginger Ale:\u003c/b>\u003c/a> Yes, I love \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2007/05/17/fever-tree-revisited-ginger-ale/\">Fever-Tree\u003c/a> so much, it even cures my nausea. (Had the newest Fever-Tree flavor, Ginger Beer, been on the market, I would have stocked that in bulk. But that's for another review. It's a doozy of a drink!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sparkling Water:\u003c/b> The partner to my Carr's Water Crackers in all times of tummy trouble, sparkling water is stalwart and true. During weeks 6-13, I stuck with the flavorless variety even though I normally prefer lemon (and now \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/04/25/pink-grapefruit-perrier/\">PAMPLEMOUSSE!\u003c/a>) because the less flavor the better for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miscellaneous\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are a few things that I either carried with me in case of a nausea emergency or gulleted to give me a stomach boost when I knew my preferred food might not be immediately gettable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ginger Chews:\u003c/b> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/04/07/ginger-lovers-unite/\">Jen wrote about these\u003c/a> a few weeks ago. Before pregnancy, I was exclusively buying the Ginger People chews at Trader Joe's, but then Jen introduced me to the firmer Chimes chews, which don't go all soft and hygroscopic-y in their wrappers, and I was converted. I found my source of Chimes at Andronico's, but still eat Ginger People in a pinch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trader Joe's Triple Ginger Cookies\u003c/b> and \u003cb>Trader Joe's Vanilla JoeJoe's Cookies:\u003c/b> First of all, it's a ginger 3-way with the ginger cookies, so that's fantastic. Second of all, even if I weren't pregnant, I'd be craving these vanilla JoeJoe's. No, they aren't just like Oreos or other sandwich cookies out there. For god's sake, people, they have actual vanilla bean in the cream filling! Highly addictive and a perfect midnight snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.threelollies.com/\">\u003cb>Preggie Pops:\u003c/b>\u003c/a> Yes, it seems like a rip-off to buy very special pregnancy candies when you can just rely on lemon drops or Sour Patch Kids, but I was intrigued, so in the interest of research and in the interest of having a full arsenal to combat nausea, I ordered these. They come in sour fruit flavors (lemon, apple, raspberry, tangerine) and herbal (peppermint, ginger, lavender) and you can buy mixed or single flavors of some. My reaction? Not bad. I went through all the fruit first and picked my way around the herbals. They definitely quelled my rising gorge in times of car trouble, so it was money well spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a long or balanced list by any means, but I wasn't being a Renaissance eater during weeks 6-13. You really don't care about the lack of dietary variety when you're just praying it will all stay down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good luck! Just remember: gag softly and carry a barf bag.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The most valuable thing I learned was that the nausea was a result of a blood sugar drop -- explaining why it's worse in the morning and therefore given the totally fallacious name of \"Morning Sickness\" -- so as long as I had enough food in me at all times, I'd be okay. In order to stave off what was for me 24-hour nausea, I had to eat every two hours.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1243449286,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1214},"headData":{"title":"Pregnant Pause: The Chronicles of Nausea | KQED","description":"The most valuable thing I learned was that the nausea was a result of a blood sugar drop -- explaining why it's worse in the morning and therefore given the totally fallacious name of "Morning Sickness" -- so as long as I had enough food in me at all times, I'd be okay. In order to stave off what was for me 24-hour nausea, I had to eat every two hours.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Pregnant Pause: The Chronicles of Nausea","datePublished":"2009-05-26T21:02:01.000Z","dateModified":"2009-05-27T18:34:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"3938 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=3938","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/05/26/pregnant-pause-the-chronicles-of-nausea/","disqusTitle":"Pregnant Pause: The Chronicles of Nausea","path":"/bayareabites/3938/pregnant-pause-the-chronicles-of-nausea","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/05/water.jpg\" alt=\"water\" title=\"water\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3939\">I'm going to start everyone off with a \"duh\" today: Every pregnancy is different. Okay? I've put that out there, and it's my disclaimer for this post. I am acknowledging that what worked for you or me might not work for your sister or friend. However, we can take comfort in the fact that SOME things might work for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I now have three pregnant friends, who are all a gradation of weeks behind me in their pregnancies, so since I'm the one to run the gauntlet first, I'm the one who answers questions and gives out what advice I can. I like it. I like sharing what I've learned, especially if what I learned can provide even one hour of relief to the expectant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By nature, I'm a fairly nauseous person. That is, I'm easily nauseated -- cars, cabs, planes, naval gazing, \u003ci>American Idol\u003c/i> -- will all do it to me. I've been this way for awhile and so learned early on in life that Dramamine was my friend, my confident, my constant companion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had feared that pregnancy might be much worse for me because of this disposition. (Remembering a ten-year-old \u003ci>New Yorker\u003c/i> article that talked about pregnant women who have uncontrollable nausea and vomiting to the point of hospitalization didn't help allay my worst fears.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, I was wrong. Aside from those annoying people, who don't ever get any morning, noon, or night sickness, I don't think my nausea was any worse than what a lot of others experience in 1st trimester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most valuable thing I learned was that the nausea was a result of a blood sugar drop -- explaining why it's worse in the morning and therefore given the totally fallacious name of \"Morning Sickness\" -- so as long as I had enough food in me at all times, I'd be okay. In order to stave off what was for me 24-hour nausea, I had to eat every two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My stomach was a clock. It would even wake me up in the middle of the night to warn me of waves of impending ickiness. I started keeping food next to my bed because, as the books warned, even the mere act of walking to the kitchen was a lot of effort for a body that was working hard to build a baby from scratch. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring the resulting crumbs, crackers and almonds were my food of choice for middle-of-the-night noshing. Sometimes cookies for a valuable quick sugar kick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Food\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carr's Table Water Crackers:\u003c/b> Bland, bland, bland, but they will line your stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Almonds:\u003c/b> I still carry the Diamond resealable bags of these around with me in case of emergency. I learned early on that the rush of protein these nuts gave me was a sure-fire way to get ahead of the nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Apples and Cheddar Cheese:\u003c/b> This was pretty much my lunch for seven weeks. Apples have always been a stomach-soother for me and the cheese was that needed protein. The cheese wasn't fancy -- as you might have expected from an old \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2006/02/16/pssst-wanna-buy-some-cheese/\">cheesemonger\u003c/a> -- it was just bulk, yellow, grocery store cheddar. Comfort food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Grilled Cheese Sandwiches:\u003c/b> Ah, the ultimate in comfort food. Yes, I ate a lot of these in first trimester because I couldn't handle anything else. What is it about grilled cheese sandwiches and why are they so comforting for so many of us? Is it all rooted in childhood? With a lot of psychoanalysis, I'm sure we could get to the bottom of it some day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Totino's Frozen Pizza:\u003c/b> Again, maybe it's going back to childhood and what we all individually define as comfort food, but Totino's was something we always had at birthday parties when I was a kid. Totino's Cheese Pizza was my Thanksgiving turkey this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Drink\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gleaning facts from \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurantwhore.com/\">friends\u003c/a> and books and the ever-opinionated Internet, I discovered that sour flavors were great for beating off nausea. I also knew from my long relationship with motion sickness that ginger was also a good curative. Plus, it's very important to stay hydrated throughout pregnancy, so get that liquid into yourself any way you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>San Pellegrino Limonata:\u003c/b> Not sweet or sugary, this \"lemonade\" has sparkling water to soothe the stomach riots and a nice bracing citrus edge to it. I love this stuff and drink it regularly now. With some bruised fresh mint, it makes an easy and refreshing mocktail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fever-tree.com/\">\u003cb>Fever-Tree Ginger Ale:\u003c/b>\u003c/a> Yes, I love \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2007/05/17/fever-tree-revisited-ginger-ale/\">Fever-Tree\u003c/a> so much, it even cures my nausea. (Had the newest Fever-Tree flavor, Ginger Beer, been on the market, I would have stocked that in bulk. But that's for another review. It's a doozy of a drink!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sparkling Water:\u003c/b> The partner to my Carr's Water Crackers in all times of tummy trouble, sparkling water is stalwart and true. During weeks 6-13, I stuck with the flavorless variety even though I normally prefer lemon (and now \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/04/25/pink-grapefruit-perrier/\">PAMPLEMOUSSE!\u003c/a>) because the less flavor the better for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miscellaneous\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are a few things that I either carried with me in case of a nausea emergency or gulleted to give me a stomach boost when I knew my preferred food might not be immediately gettable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ginger Chews:\u003c/b> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/04/07/ginger-lovers-unite/\">Jen wrote about these\u003c/a> a few weeks ago. Before pregnancy, I was exclusively buying the Ginger People chews at Trader Joe's, but then Jen introduced me to the firmer Chimes chews, which don't go all soft and hygroscopic-y in their wrappers, and I was converted. I found my source of Chimes at Andronico's, but still eat Ginger People in a pinch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trader Joe's Triple Ginger Cookies\u003c/b> and \u003cb>Trader Joe's Vanilla JoeJoe's Cookies:\u003c/b> First of all, it's a ginger 3-way with the ginger cookies, so that's fantastic. Second of all, even if I weren't pregnant, I'd be craving these vanilla JoeJoe's. No, they aren't just like Oreos or other sandwich cookies out there. For god's sake, people, they have actual vanilla bean in the cream filling! Highly addictive and a perfect midnight snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.threelollies.com/\">\u003cb>Preggie Pops:\u003c/b>\u003c/a> Yes, it seems like a rip-off to buy very special pregnancy candies when you can just rely on lemon drops or Sour Patch Kids, but I was intrigued, so in the interest of research and in the interest of having a full arsenal to combat nausea, I ordered these. They come in sour fruit flavors (lemon, apple, raspberry, tangerine) and herbal (peppermint, ginger, lavender) and you can buy mixed or single flavors of some. My reaction? Not bad. I went through all the fruit first and picked my way around the herbals. They definitely quelled my rising gorge in times of car trouble, so it was money well spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a long or balanced list by any means, but I wasn't being a Renaissance eater during weeks 6-13. You really don't care about the lack of dietary variety when you're just praying it will all stay down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good luck! Just remember: gag softly and carry a barf bag.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/3938/pregnant-pause-the-chronicles-of-nausea","authors":["5010"],"categories":["bayareabites_752","bayareabites_1245"],"tags":["bayareabites_2195","bayareabites_2058","bayareabites_1768"],"label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_3502":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_3502","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"3502","score":null,"sort":[1241451297000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pregnant-pause-digesting-junk-food-and-unwanted-opinions","title":"Pregnant Pause: Digesting Junk Food and Unwanted Opinions","publishDate":1241451297,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/05/junkfood.jpg\" alt=\"junk food\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3503\">I'm stating the obvious, I know, but every single pregnancy decision you make is rife with potential controversy. Absolute strangers feel perfectly fine in their own heads about offering their opinions, advice, or finger-shaking at the slightest provocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll never forget the night I went to a dinner party and it came up that we were going to find out the sex of the baby. \"Oh, I wouldn't do that,\" one old biddy advised me, \"You really should be surprised.\" I'm sorry lady, but do I even know your name? More to the point, do you know mine?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, my backbone was firmly in place and I calmly and decisively delivered my prepared statement: \"We think it's a surprise at any point in pregnancy, and I'd rather not be hopped up on drugs when we do find out.\" Then I braced myself for the unasked-for lecture on unmedicated births, but happily, I was spared that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the deal: your pregnancy, your decisions. Unless you are causing physical harm to yourself or your baby, no one has the right to make you feel guilty or like a bad mother. NO ONE. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that goes for your food choices as well. A fellow pregnant friend had to deal with a co-worker, who was all Judgey McOpinionPants that my friend hadn't given up sugar for her pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, this pregnancy turned me into a \u003ca href=\"http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/M-113_creature\">Salt Vampire\u003c/a>. Usually fairly light-handed in my application of salt in the past, I have really been piling it on recently. Which is odd because with my pregnancy-endowed super smeller, it would seem to follow that I've got a super taster as well, right? So why the need to increase my blood pressure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, some articles, books, or blog posts might tell me that I'm craving salt because the baby wants minerals he's otherwise lacking. These same articles also tell me that I don't want chocolate because the baby is telling me to eat healthy food. So, then I gotta ask: what is said baby is trying to tell me when I crave McDonald's cheeseburgers, Safeway doughnuts, and root beer? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, I know there are pregnant chicks out there who make the irrevocable decision to eat healthy, healthy, healthy their entire pregnancy and that's admirable, it really is. However, for me, it wasn't at all reasonable in the first trimester. And by \"reasonable\" I mean, \"either I eat this bag of Cheetos or the kid starves because everything else is making me nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, I was a fairly healthy eater before I got pregnant. I ate mostly grains, legumes, and vegetables with fish and some meats mixed in. I didn't overdo it in the dessert department, and I tried to restrain my rampant cheese obsession. Also, we mostly cooked at home with only occasional dinings-out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That all went out the window in weeks 6-13 where I scarfed every possible item of junk food known to man and couldn't bear to set foot in the kitchen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At my first doctor's appointment, I had to fill out a sheet describing what I had eaten in the previous week. This was my menu: hot dogs, grilled cheese, cookies, Totino's pizza, apples, crackers, water. My UCSF midwife smiled at the list. \"This reads like one of my pregnant teenagers,\" she commented. I hurriedly told her that \u003ci>normally\u003c/i> I was a really \u003ci>healthy\u003c/i> eater and that I \u003ci>knew\u003c/i> I had to get good stuff in my body for the baby. She calmed me down and said it was perfectly normal and no, I wasn't already a bad mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I got past my nauseous stage, my body went back to allowing in all the stuff from my old diet without kicking up a mighty, bathroom-dashing fuss. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I'm trying to say is, pregnancy is stressful enough as it is, so if you're craving \"bad food,\" try not beat yourself up about it. Can you go overboard and eat ten donuts a day for every day of your pregnancy? Sure, all things in moderation and so on, but the upshot is, it's only nine months, you'll get your body back on track.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This is the deal: your pregnancy, your decisions. Unless you are causing physical harm to yourself or your baby, no one has the right to make you feel guilty or like a bad mother. NO ONE. 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Absolute strangers feel perfectly fine in their own heads about offering their opinions, advice, or finger-shaking at the slightest provocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll never forget the night I went to a dinner party and it came up that we were going to find out the sex of the baby. \"Oh, I wouldn't do that,\" one old biddy advised me, \"You really should be surprised.\" I'm sorry lady, but do I even know your name? More to the point, do you know mine?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, my backbone was firmly in place and I calmly and decisively delivered my prepared statement: \"We think it's a surprise at any point in pregnancy, and I'd rather not be hopped up on drugs when we do find out.\" Then I braced myself for the unasked-for lecture on unmedicated births, but happily, I was spared that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the deal: your pregnancy, your decisions. Unless you are causing physical harm to yourself or your baby, no one has the right to make you feel guilty or like a bad mother. 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So why the need to increase my blood pressure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, some articles, books, or blog posts might tell me that I'm craving salt because the baby wants minerals he's otherwise lacking. These same articles also tell me that I don't want chocolate because the baby is telling me to eat healthy food. So, then I gotta ask: what is said baby is trying to tell me when I crave McDonald's cheeseburgers, Safeway doughnuts, and root beer? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, I know there are pregnant chicks out there who make the irrevocable decision to eat healthy, healthy, healthy their entire pregnancy and that's admirable, it really is. However, for me, it wasn't at all reasonable in the first trimester. And by \"reasonable\" I mean, \"either I eat this bag of Cheetos or the kid starves because everything else is making me nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, I was a fairly healthy eater before I got pregnant. 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Move along now. I mean it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that our doula saw my stash of pop tarts on top of the refrigerator. That would explain her hesitant tone when she called me after I had called her, hysterical, three weeks before my baby was due. Some women get post-partum depression; in my case, I had a whopper case of \u003cem>pre\u003c/em>-partum depression, which, needless to say, did not bode well the post part of the partum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Um, Meghan, I know this might really not be your style, but maybe you'd like to think about something that I've read can help fend off post-partum,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything, anything!” I would have freebased free range koala turds at that point if it meant I would okay after the birth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could have your placenta, uh, \u003cem>processed\u003c/em>,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Processed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some studies have shown that consuming your placenta after the birth can prevent post-partum depression. And I know someone who can process it for you. Into pills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pills, eh? Well now, I’m a fan of pills! And it’s not like I was a complete stranger to the notion of consuming placenta. In Thailand, one of my Thai friend’s favorite soups was made with buffalo placenta, and I’d certainly heard about women consuming their placentas in smoothies, omelets, etc. I did take birth classes in Berkeley, after all. (If you don’t believe me, there’s this thing called Google...)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward a couple of weeks...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve just pushed out my kid. He’s across the room, getting meconium vacuumed off his schnozz, and the placenta (His? Mine? Ours?) is on its way. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our birth plan to save the placenta, right? Save the placenta?” I called to the intern, who was busy between my legs. (A situation which can’t help but call to mind the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hulu.com/watch/3523/saturday-night-live-the-french-chef\">classic Saturday Night Live skit with Dan Ackroyd playing Julia Child saving the chicken livers\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “Yep, we’ll save it, don’t worry. It will be in the fridge down the hall.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, really! In the fridge down the hall along with the Odwalla smoothies we have stocked there...and every other maternity ward mother’s snacks, too. Nice...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward two days...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our newborn son is strapped into his car seat, and we’re headed home at three miles an hour. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shit, we forgot the placenta.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, suffice it to say that much as we wanted our placenta, we weren’t really in the mood to turn back at three miles an hour. So, we called the hospital. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Save our placenta! Please! Don’t throw it out! It’s in a Tupperware container in the fridge! Put a post-it on it that says, ‘Urgently needed placenta! DO NOT THROW AWAY!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next phone call: the doula (not ours) whom we’d hired, for $250, to prepare our placenta. Bless her little organic soul, she agreed to go pick it up herself. (I had visions of our placenta, aging in its Tupperware, ready for a Manager’s Special markdown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next phone call: back to the hospital. “Can you release our placenta to someone who isn’t us? Yes? GREAT!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward another two days...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post-partum depression has not, as of yet, struck. But I’m jonesing for my placenta pills, man. Big time. Because surely if I don’t get them THIS INSTANT my son will wind up in juvi hall in 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panicked phone call to the placenta preparer: “Don’t worry,” she told me. “It’s all done. I’ll bring it over this afternoon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And voila: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/04/placenta-pills.jpg\" alt=\"placenta pills\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3118\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>129 pills of pure Laslocky placenta, steamed lightly with ginger, jalepeno and lemon, sliced thinly and dried in a dehydrator, then ground into a powder and put into capsules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The label reads: “Placenta medicine. Dosage: Up to 2 caps 3x a day for 2 weeks postpartum. Take for immunity, menopause, and to augment the Chi and nourish the blood. Also for rites of passage: teething, walking, school, times of growth and separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could rub some powdered placenta on my boy’s gums, the preparer said, if I thought he’d ever lost his way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our placenta, she added, was a particularly beautiful one -- so beautiful she dried some of the amniotic sack that was attached to it. Here it is: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/04/placenta-whole.jpg\" alt=\"whole placenta\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3119\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and this? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/04/umbilical-cord.jpg\" alt=\"umbilical cord\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3117\">\u003cbr>\nThis is a bit of the membrane and the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord, some say, makes a great teething ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward another two days...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know how fish oil pills make you burp? There I was, dutifully downing two capsules three times a day, burping up placenta like there’s no tomorrow. And it was NOT pleasant. Gag-inducing belches, and no matter how I consumed them -- with milk, with a sandwich, with an entire loaf of bread -- there it was: the unmistakable piquant flavor of placenta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My neighbor sniffed the jar. “Hmm. Smells like mushrooms,” she said, oh so helpfully. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mushrooms STUFFED WITH PLACENTA, that is. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward four months...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, so I cut back and took just one pill a day for...a day. The jar of pills sits in my cupboard, nestled with the honey and my great-grandmother’s circa 1915 Noritake soup bowls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not inclined to take it -- fortunately I did not get post-partum depression -- but I’m glad it’s there, and the truth is that when I give the open jar a good whiff now, it doesn’t smell nearly as horrible. It smells more of ginger now than it does of placenta. There’s something really sweet about having it, and I’m not saying that with snark. Plus it’s always good to have options: Early onset of menopause could be right around the corner, and my boy will be teething any day now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I do have delightful visions of sending him off to college, rubbing the contents of the 129th pill into his gums. \"Don't forget who's your mommy, baby.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note:\u003c/strong> Don't read this if you find my other posts disgusting or offensive. 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Move along now. I mean it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that our doula saw my stash of pop tarts on top of the refrigerator. That would explain her hesitant tone when she called me after I had called her, hysterical, three weeks before my baby was due. Some women get post-partum depression; in my case, I had a whopper case of \u003cem>pre\u003c/em>-partum depression, which, needless to say, did not bode well the post part of the partum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Um, Meghan, I know this might really not be your style, but maybe you'd like to think about something that I've read can help fend off post-partum,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything, anything!” I would have freebased free range koala turds at that point if it meant I would okay after the birth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could have your placenta, uh, \u003cem>processed\u003c/em>,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Processed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some studies have shown that consuming your placenta after the birth can prevent post-partum depression. And I know someone who can process it for you. Into pills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pills, eh? Well now, I’m a fan of pills! And it’s not like I was a complete stranger to the notion of consuming placenta. In Thailand, one of my Thai friend’s favorite soups was made with buffalo placenta, and I’d certainly heard about women consuming their placentas in smoothies, omelets, etc. I did take birth classes in Berkeley, after all. (If you don’t believe me, there’s this thing called Google...)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward a couple of weeks...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve just pushed out my kid. He’s across the room, getting meconium vacuumed off his schnozz, and the placenta (His? Mine? Ours?) is on its way. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our birth plan to save the placenta, right? Save the placenta?” I called to the intern, who was busy between my legs. (A situation which can’t help but call to mind the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hulu.com/watch/3523/saturday-night-live-the-french-chef\">classic Saturday Night Live skit with Dan Ackroyd playing Julia Child saving the chicken livers\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “Yep, we’ll save it, don’t worry. It will be in the fridge down the hall.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, really! In the fridge down the hall along with the Odwalla smoothies we have stocked there...and every other maternity ward mother’s snacks, too. Nice...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward two days...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our newborn son is strapped into his car seat, and we’re headed home at three miles an hour. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shit, we forgot the placenta.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, suffice it to say that much as we wanted our placenta, we weren’t really in the mood to turn back at three miles an hour. So, we called the hospital. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Save our placenta! Please! Don’t throw it out! It’s in a Tupperware container in the fridge! Put a post-it on it that says, ‘Urgently needed placenta! DO NOT THROW AWAY!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next phone call: the doula (not ours) whom we’d hired, for $250, to prepare our placenta. Bless her little organic soul, she agreed to go pick it up herself. (I had visions of our placenta, aging in its Tupperware, ready for a Manager’s Special markdown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next phone call: back to the hospital. “Can you release our placenta to someone who isn’t us? Yes? GREAT!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward another two days...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post-partum depression has not, as of yet, struck. But I’m jonesing for my placenta pills, man. Big time. Because surely if I don’t get them THIS INSTANT my son will wind up in juvi hall in 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panicked phone call to the placenta preparer: “Don’t worry,” she told me. “It’s all done. I’ll bring it over this afternoon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And voila: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/04/placenta-pills.jpg\" alt=\"placenta pills\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3118\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>129 pills of pure Laslocky placenta, steamed lightly with ginger, jalepeno and lemon, sliced thinly and dried in a dehydrator, then ground into a powder and put into capsules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The label reads: “Placenta medicine. Dosage: Up to 2 caps 3x a day for 2 weeks postpartum. Take for immunity, menopause, and to augment the Chi and nourish the blood. Also for rites of passage: teething, walking, school, times of growth and separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could rub some powdered placenta on my boy’s gums, the preparer said, if I thought he’d ever lost his way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our placenta, she added, was a particularly beautiful one -- so beautiful she dried some of the amniotic sack that was attached to it. Here it is: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/04/placenta-whole.jpg\" alt=\"whole placenta\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3119\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and this? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/04/umbilical-cord.jpg\" alt=\"umbilical cord\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3117\">\u003cbr>\nThis is a bit of the membrane and the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord, some say, makes a great teething ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward another two days...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know how fish oil pills make you burp? There I was, dutifully downing two capsules three times a day, burping up placenta like there’s no tomorrow. And it was NOT pleasant. Gag-inducing belches, and no matter how I consumed them -- with milk, with a sandwich, with an entire loaf of bread -- there it was: the unmistakable piquant flavor of placenta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My neighbor sniffed the jar. “Hmm. Smells like mushrooms,” she said, oh so helpfully. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mushrooms STUFFED WITH PLACENTA, that is. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fast forward four months...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, so I cut back and took just one pill a day for...a day. 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Plus it’s always good to have options: Early onset of menopause could be right around the corner, and my boy will be teething any day now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I do have delightful visions of sending him off to college, rubbing the contents of the 129th pill into his gums. \"Don't forget who's your mommy, baby.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/3114/ill-have-my-baby-with-a-side-of-placenta","authors":["5022"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246"],"tags":["bayareabites_2056","bayareabites_2057","bayareabites_2058"],"label":"bayareabites"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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