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keep tissues there all the time—and I snored at wife.—such a peaceful, relaxing setting.” Says Miriam, “I credit a strict
night!” It took her ten days on raw milk from diet from the WAPF, my midwife and mom for a quick and safe six-hour
a vending machine in Switzerland before the delivery. No sugar, coffee, alcohol or refined carbs for almost a year, with
allergies cleared. lots of organic, nourishing whole foods, including lots of healthy fats.
Four days before the delivery, she ate I'm already back in my jeans!”
another can of sardines (having eaten many Amazing the difference between Miriam and myself! Now I'm curi-
already) and also followed my Swiss aunt's ous what my grandson's dental arches and eyesight will be. I'm thankful
advice (who had five easy births, one on the for the midwife teaching my daughter so many things (I learned nothing
highway going to church!) by consuming about from my doctor or the hospital!) One piece of advice was to cradle the
a tablespoon of ground flax daily in her last two baby in the last trimester so it would not come with the head turned up-
months of pregnancy. She also used hemaplex wards like mine did. She was continually on top of blood levels, proper
(a supplement for healthy blood) just to be safe diet and so much more. While pregnant our daughter shared the diet with
(suggested by her midwife). her pregnant girlfriend who experienced preclampsia and had a caesarian
The day before delivery, Miriam worked with her first pregnancy. Her girlfriend then went on the Wise Traditions
in New York City all day, cooked dinner in diet and had a healthy second pregnancy with vaginal birth!
New Jersey and then was driven one and one- Of course, much gratitude must go to the Weston A. Price Founda-
half hours to her midwife in Lancaster County, tion, which is helping countless mothers reverse the trend of physical
Pennsylvania. She had a full term baby by water degeneration. What greater gift to any family than a healthy child!
birth—a healthy seven pound baby boy, pushing
actively for only eight minutes, and losing only Judith Mudrak is the author of the German book Milch ist nicht gleich
about two cups of blood. Baby was born quiet Milch! (Not All Milk is Alike). She writes articles about milk for Swiss
and content and had his first bowel movement farming communities and has been interviewed several times in Swit-
within the first hour. zerland about America and the raw milk movement. She holds frequent
Miriam likes to call it “Destination Birth,” power point presentations on milk as well as market stands in Switzerland,
and feels that this is a new trend. “Our baby Germany and Austria. Since 2006, she has led the WAPF Swiss tours and
was born in a beautifully restored 1800s farm is the chapter leader for both Southampton, NJ and Bern, Switzerland. As
cottage with just my husband and the mid- an herbalist Judith teaches about wild edibles, makes her own medicine
and tends to her large garden and a flock of seven chickens.

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