Healthy Baby Photo Gallery, 2017-2018

Members send us photos of their healthy Wise Traditions babies. Wise parents enhance their own nutrition for six months prior to conception, and mothers eat a rich nourishing diet throughout pregnancy and lactation. See our Diet for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers to learn how you can give your baby the best possible start in life.

Click the links below to see photos published in designated volumes of Wise Traditions:
V1-5 (2000-2004) | V6-7 (2005-2006) | V8-9 (2007-2008) | V10-11 (2009-2010) | V12-13 (2011-2012).

From Wise Traditions V18N3, FALL 2017

Ramona was born with a perfectly round head with an above average circumference and wide face with plenty of room for her teeth to grow. Mommy’s pregnancy was full-term, natural and smooth with no complications. Ramona’s first solid food was grass-fed butter and free-range egg yolks and she received plenty of breast milk to this day, two years after her birth. She’s had no serious illnesses and recovered quickly—within a day or two—from infrequent minor colds. She enjoys and looks forward to real wholesome food with her family everyday!

Fourteen-month-young Waker is doing amazingly well. Unvaccinated, Waker is off the charts for height, healthy weight and perfect head circumference. Waker’s mom Willow was only able to breastfeed for two-and-one-half months. After unsuccessful efforts to boost milk production with organic herbs and supplements, Waker transitioned to half breast milk and half organic formula. However, as a certified holistic practitioner, real foodist, licensed massage therapist and student of life, Willow knew that Waker would benefit even more from the WAPF liver formula. She visited farms and farmers markets to meet the providers of the ingredients, and took on the challenge of making the liver formula. It was (and still is) a huge learning experience, but the family developed a system and flow for making it. Waker started with half breast milk and half liver formula and transitioned to just liver formula at four months. He loves it and calls it his “Waker juice.” At about twelve months, Waker’s parents tried introducing raw milk and raw milk formula. When Waker showed no interest, they mixed the raw milk formula with the liver formula. The result is outstanding health and development. The experience of making both formulas has led to great relationships with local farmers and connections with other like-minded families whose love for their children prompted them to make a similar leap of faith. Waker’s parents are grateful for the Weston A. Price Foundation’s hard work and dedication to families.

Olive Paisley was mom’s first unassisted birth and second homebirth, following an incredibly short, easy labor, less than five hours from first light contractions. Mom’s diet was hugely improved between her first pregnancy and this one. Nutrition is no joke! During her first pregnancy, mom still drank soda, and generally ate a standard American diet. Then she discoverd the WAPF Wise Traditions diet! With Olive she had zero morning sickness, and by five days postpartum, she was roughly where she was around four weeks with her previous birth. This pregnancy was brought to you by raw milk and tons of grass-fed butter. Mom sends a huge thank you to the Nourishing Our Children community, an amazing resource! Olive is healthy and eats well because of the Weston A. Price Foundation!

From Wise Traditions V18N2, SUMMER 2017

Sibling Taliesin Moon holds baby Elwyn Oak just hours after Elwyn’s birth. Elwyn Oak was born at home after a short enjoyable labor at East Wind Community. Elwyn Oak loves his rich breast milk and shows his appreciation by sleeping for long stretches and blessing us with beautiful smiles. Taliesin loves a variety of foods and especially enjoys homemade kimchi, bone broth and even his cod liver oil. The whole family enjoys the raw grass-fed dairy near our community farm, and many fresh vegetables and meats grown and processed right at East Wind. We are all grateful to a nourishing diet for our good health. Thanks, WAPF!

Healthy, happy and beautiful Landon Spencer was born on March 2, 2016, weighing close to nine pounds to proud parents Alissa and Eric and proud grandmother Catherine. Landon is blessed to have two older siblings. Twins Benjamin and Isabel were born in December 2010, and weighed in at seven pounds each. The entire family eats a WAPF diet of raw milk, fermented cod liver oil, butter, grass-fed meats and bone broths.

Veronica Rose is the youngest child of Cincinnati chapter leader Ellie Sodergren. After celebrating one decade of WAPF membership, Ellie is delighted to see that Veronica shows all the characteristics of a well-nourished child. During her complication-free pregnancy, Ellie enjoyed homemade raw-liver “prenatal” vitamins, loads of raw egg yolks, butter, raw milk products and cod liver oil. After a celebratory home birth, Veronica has grown and developed in beautiful proportion. Now two years old, Veronica enjoys the full spectrum of her family’s homemade, farmfresh, nutrient-dense foods, right along with mom’s breast milk. Veronica’s name means “true image,” and this true image of a healthy child gets endless comments on her delightful curiosity, bright eyes and stunning intelligence.

Natasha (pictured at six months) was born to parents who ate a Weston A. Price diet for years prior to her conception, including fermented foods, cod liver oil, raw milk and lots of oysters and shellfish. At twelve months, she is an extremely happy baby and everyone comments on how much
she smiles. She has nonstop energy and loves
people, playing and eating. She is still breastfeeding, which her mom hopes to continue for many more months even though mom works full-time. Natasha’s favorite foods are pastured egg yolks, sweet potatoes (fermented or with butter), raw milk kefir, wild-caught salmon, pastured meats, bone marrow custard, cod liver oil and organic veggies with lots of raw butter. Thank you, WAPF, for all the important knowledge you share!

From Wise Traditions V18N1, SPRING 2017

Elizabeth Joy is the second child of WAPF chapter leader Rashel Harris and her husband, Andrew. Elizabeth was born June 15, 2014, three years after her older sister, Isabella. Elizabeth was born at home in a birth pool with the assistance of a midwife and doula. Her birth was an incredible experience, and as close to painless as Rashel could have hoped for. From the start, Elizabeth was happy, healthy and a great sleeper; she was sleeping though the night by two months old. For the first year of her life, she decided all she wanted was breast milk (to her mother’s dismay). Incorporating other nutrient-dense foods was a slow process, but we can now proudly say that Elizabeth’s favorite foods include raw milk from the family milk cow, fermented veggies from the garden (especially pickles, carrots and kraut), cinnamon cod liver oil, homemade cheese and yogurt, fruit smoothies, cured meats, pork sausage, lamb and sourdough breads. — Elizabeth Joy is the second child of WAPF chapter leader Rashel and her husband, Andrew. Elizabeth was born June 15, 2014, three years after her older sister, Isabella. Elizabeth was born at home in a birth pool with the assistance of a midwife and doula. Her birth was an incredible experience, and as close to painless as Rashel could have hoped for. From the start, Elizabeth was happy, healthy and a great sleeper; she was sleeping though the night by two months old. For the first year of her life, she decided all she wanted was breast milk (to her mother’s dismay). Incorporating other nutrient-dense foods was a slow process, but we can now proudly say that Elizabeth’s favorite foods include raw milk from the family milk cow, fermented veggies from the garden (especially pickles, carrots and kraut), cinnamon cod liver oil, homemade cheese and yogurt, fruit smoothies, cured meats, pork sausage, lamb and sourdough breads.

A fun-loving, good-natured child, Moses Gabriel thrives on traditional foods. Moses’s mom focused on eating a real-food, nutrient-dense diet for over six years as well as doing some major detoxification from military vaccines before conceiving. Moses enjoys a wide variety of traditionally prepared foods, including pastured egg yolks, liver, cod liver oil, wild game meats, fermented vegetables, soaked gluten-free grains, bone broths, grass-fed butter, as well as his most recent favorites, plantains fried in coconut oil and arrowroot biscuits. His healthful diet has played a crucial part in offsetting some genetic mutations passed down from his parents, including MTHFR and celiac disease, which necessitated the removal of dairy (except for butter) and gluten from his diet. Midline defects can thankfully be remedied using a combination of both diet and holistic dentistry's A.L.F. palate expansion device. Most people think it is luck to have a beautiful baby, but Moses’s parents know that it is a gift from God who designed our bodies to respond to a daily intake of nutrient-dense foods high in vitamins A, D, and K2 as recommended by WAPF. — A fun-loving, good-natured child, Moses Gabriel thrives on traditional foods. Moses’s mom focused on eating a real-food, nutrient-dense diet for over six years as well as doing some major detoxification from military vaccines before conceiving. Moses enjoys a wide variety of traditionally prepared foods, including pastured egg yolks, liver, cod liver oil, wild game meats, fermented vegetables, soaked gluten-free grains, bone broths, grass-fed butter, as well as his most recent favorites, plantains fried in coconut oil and arrowroot biscuits. His healthful diet has played a crucial part in offsetting some genetic mutations passed down from his parents, including MTHFR and celiac disease, which necessitated the removal of dairy (except for butter) and gluten from his diet. Midline defects can thankfully be remedied using a combination of both diet and holistic dentistry’s A.L.F. palate expansion device. Most people think it is luck to have a beautiful baby, but Moses’s parents know that it is a gift from God who designed our bodies to respond to a daily intake of nutrient-dense foods high in vitamins A, D, and K2 as recommended by WAPF.

Comments

JoAnn Ryan says

June 9, 2017 at 9:41 am

It is so encouraging to know there are parents out there who take special interest, time and sacrifice in caring for their children in helping them to live healthier lives and eventually make healthy choices as they grow in to adulthood.

jessica l says

December 7, 2017 at 3:02 pm

It would be so great to see if these kids keep in the tradition and then have children. The second generation born into this change would be a fascinating study!!!

- Willow says
  
  February 13, 2018 at 2:52 am
  
  And then we put side by side photos!
  Amazing idea Jessica. To be continued…!