Welcome to the third edition of Eating for Pregnancy!
We are thrilled and honored to be a trusted source for pregnancy nutrition for the past fifteen years. We understand what pregnant women want and need and we do our best to deliver! While it’s hard to compete with intense cravings for pickles or rocky road ice cream, we offer 150 nutritious recipes that will tickle your taste buds and satisfy all your nutritional needs. We’ve redesigned this edition to track your baby’s monthly development and honed in on the specific nutrients to optimize your little one’s growth over the next nine months.
We know that creating a baby (or babies) is no easy feat. But with the combined knowledge and wisdom our amazing team has to offer, we hope you will feel comfortable in the hands of experts. With decades of experience, each of our contributors offers professional advice along with empathy and support.
Since we published the first edition of Eating for Pregnancy in 2003, we’ve noticed a powerful cooking movement toward consuming more whole foods and superfoods. We love this trend! We hope our book inspires you to leap toward eating healthy foods (maybe even trying some for the first time) and cooking at home! And, for all you mamas out there with special dietary needs, we’ve upgraded our recipes and complete meal ideas by adding notes on how to make recipes gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, vegan, and helpful for women with diabetes during pregnancy.
These pages are filled with family-friendly recipes tested and enjoyed over the years by couples and families like yours. Convenience and speed are number one priorities in our hectic world. We get it. You need to eat well, sleep as much as possible, pee every five minutes, walk the dog, take your toddler to daycare, and head to work. We want to make sure breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all snacks in between are as stress-free, delicious, and healthy as they can be.
We hope the smart eating habits and recipes you incorporate into your lifestyle over the next nine months will stay with you and your family for years to come. Thank you for allowing us to be part of your incredible journey!
Big hugs and lots of love, Catherine and Rose Ann