Organic Mother & Baby

 by Kara Spencer, Maia Healing Arts

 

Choosing organic food is one of the healthiest choices you can make in your prenatal care. Organic food is optimal for all people, yet it is especially critical for maternal, fetal, and child health. Pesticides and chemicals used in conventional agriculture are not filtered by the placental barrier, thus babies in the modern world, are floating in amniotic fluid with industrial and agricultural chemicals.  Eating organic food, immediately and dramatically lowers pesticide levels in the body.

Babies are more vulnurable to chemicals and pollutants than grownups, because their bodies, brain, and immune system are so sensitive. Mothers can eat organic food, drink pure water, and use natural body care products to ensure that their pregnant womb and postpartum milk are providing the cleanest healthiest nutrition possible for their baby.

Eating organic also protects you from eating genetically-engineered food, now prolific in the conventional grocery and restaurant industries.  In the United States, genetically-engineered foods are unregulated and the potential health risks of genetically engineered food are unknown.

Genetically engineered food concerns many scientists, as biotechnology is inprecise and the consequences are incalculable. In order to splice genes of different organisms, biotechnology utilizes bacteria and viruses, such as ecoli, to invade the living cells. Genetically engineered food contains antibiotic resistant gene markers, for identification. The potential for widespread antiobiotic resistance is a serious medical threat to public health.

Genetically modified foods have less nutrition and more chemicals. Crops  are prepared with biotechnology for immunity to pesticides, so that pesticides can be sprayed on the crops and everything will die except the crops. However, this have brought rise to superweeds, which are immune to the pesticides and require even more toxic chemical spraying. Thus, genetically modified crops may need even more chemical spraying than traditional crops.

Organic food tastes better, is highly nutritive, preserves family farming, builds healthy soil, protects water resources, and is part of a healthy ecosystem. Optimal prenatal nutrition can be achieved through organic foods and pure drinking water. 

Further Resources:

The O'Mama Report

The Organic Manifesto of a Biologist Mother 

The Future of Food