The Weston A. Price Foundation is currently conducting a pregnancy survey to assess the birth outcomes of women with different dietary and supplementation habits.
The purpose of the survey is to help determine how certain foods and supplements affect the health of pregnant mothers and their newly born infants with the hope that the information gleaned can be shared to help improve the pregnancy and birth experience of future mothers and provide the optimal foundation for their babies to achieve a high level of health.
If you have given birth between May 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012, the Foundation welcomes your participation in the survey.
Please click here to participate.
It is important that a large number of mothers with different dietary habits and different pregnancy outcomes be included in the survey.
Whether a Mother perceives her dietary habits as conventional or unusual, and whether she considers her pregnancy to have been eventful or uneventful, her participation is welcomed.
The survey should take less than twenty minutes to complete.
The information mothers provide in the survey will be summarized into statistics that the Foundation may eventually publish, but no individual or personal information provided will be shared with anyone publicly or privately.
The survey will be completed on September 30, 2012.
Please share this pregnancy survey with as many mothers as you can.  Breastfeeding, homeschooling, homebirthing and other forums where mothers participate would be ideal places to send the link about this survey so that the widest participation possible is obtained.
Thank you for your help in getting the word out about this important pregnancy survey!
I filled out the survey. I was surprised that morning sickness wasn’t mentioned on the survey, as i tend to think that diet has a lot to do with that. I’m 10 weeks postpartum of my second super easy pregnancy and birth. First one was 5 hours of labor, this one was 2.5. I started eating a traditional diet (mostly) after the first, and avoided the super itchyness that I had in late pregnancy last time. I also carried a week longer (41 weeks) and had a super healthy placenta. My first was born at 40 weeks with a placenta that had a lot of infarctions in it; not sure what was up with that.
Surprisingly, despite lots of dietary changes between the two pregnancies, both babies were almost the same size. 6 14 at 40 weeks and 7 4 at 41 weeks. I was nearly vegetarian with the first pregnancy, so I was really expecting a bigger baby this time, with all of the eggs and bacon I was consuming!
Oh, but postpartum was much easier this time- no ‘baby blues” at all, no tearing despite funky positioning of baby, and plenty of energy in the weeks after the birth. Also my baby is very content and has no digestive issues. My first did have some colic in the evenings (not nearly as bad as a bunch that I’ve read about), and now I think that it was probably something to do with the soy and processed milk that I was eating. Since then we’ve switched to raw milk at home and NO SOY, and I think my breastmilk is more easily digestable.
I must say after 8 years of trying I was pretty tickled to be able to partcipate in this study!
I took the survey for baby number 5. At that time I had only been on WAP for 6 months. There were no real differences in that pregnancy from my previous 4. BUT I wished I could comment on THIS pregnancy. I have been on a 90/10 WAP diet for 12 months prior to pregnancy, and I took HV Butter Oil and Ferm. CLO for a whole month at therapeutic doses, and I had much less morning sickness. Where in each previous pregnancy I lost 10-15 pounds in the first trimester, this time I GAINED 5! I feel healthier. I’m going to start taking HVBO and FCLO during pregnancy, and try to eat healthier again. WHenever I get pregnant I have a hard time sticking to eating right.
It’s off-topic, I know, but Sarah – you and I have the same big hair! We both have thick, curly manes! So cute! You were a lovely pregnant lady, by the way. 🙂
Thank you Laura. I always felt incredibly beautiful when I was pregnant and I’m sure that many other ladies reading this would wholeheartedly concur.
Thanks to all of you who have filled out the survey already! Please pass it along even to your friends who eat a regular SAD diet as the survey will be most helpful if women with a wide variety of dietary habits participate.
i can fill it out come aug. but the timeframe is just outside my son’s birthday
I took the survey.
I can fill out the survey in 3 months:)
i just filled it out! but i just found out we’re expecting again so i am bound and determined to eat the right way and hopefully this pregnancy will be a lot smoother and healthier for me and baby <3
Sad that my second baby is due in July 2012. Attempting to follow more of a traditional diet this time.