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WEBSITE CHANGED OUR LIVES Weston A. Price Foundation website eral miscarriages we finally have our
Thank you for the information pro- from all others on the same subject. I long-awaited child. Baby Gillis is robust
vided on your website. It has literally was hard-pressed to find good quality and cheerful.
changed our lives! About two years ago, information that was not sponsored by As a newborn, Gillis nursed vo-
I began researching nutrition because of a company clearly only concerned with raciously through the day and slept
certain health problems I was experi- making money. I continued to refer to through the night while nursing (one
encing (allergies, migraine headaches, your website not only because I began major session and some little nips). As
severe cervical dysplasia, etc.). Some- to feel healthier as I put to practice the he got older and became more interested
where along the way, I stumbled upon advice given, but because the website in his surroundings, he nursed a bit less
the Weston A. Price Foundation website is so functional, making it easy to during the day and more at night—while
and have referred to it over and over find the answers to my questions from continuing to “sleep through the night.”
again, to the exclusion of almost every well-written articles. Thank you again As of this writing, Gillis is nearly ten
other resource I was using. for your website and the help you have months old and continues to nurse like
With very little support from others provided for our family. a champion, even though he now eats
and much opposition, our food intake has Elizabeth Kingery some other food as well. He goes to
gradually changed from pasteurized milk Kent, Washington sleep around 8 PM and remains asleep
to raw and cultured milk, from “lowfat” until 7 AM or later. When he wants to
boneless chicken breasts to free-range HAVING IT BOTH WAYS nurse during the night, he wiggles a bit,
whole chicken and homemade bone I want to share my happy suspicion and I pop him on the breast. He does not
stock. Presently, I have crème fraîche sit- that we “WAPF mommies” may wake up, and I barely have to wake up
ting on top of my kitchen counter, beans have the best of both worlds: nursing myself. Papa slumbers on…
soaking in water, grass-fed pot roast soak- and sleeping. The statement from a Fortunately, my husband and I
ing in buttermilk in the refrigerator and reader in your last issue—“when a baby learned of the nourishing traditional diet
freshly ground spelt soaking in a warm sleeps through the night, the mother’s in time to improve our health and be-
place for buttermilk biscuits tomorrow milk typically dries up”—is not my come parents. Our days of soy and other
morning. This is a complete turnaround experience. That is because my son so-called “health foods” are behind us.
from the way we were eating two years nurses at night while continuing to sleep. Your magazine and philosophies have
ago and our health is all the better for it. I believe that our comparatively truly given us new life.
The only medical problems my family restful nights are due to two factors: our Eveline MacDougall
and I experienced this past year were practice of having our baby sleep with Greenfield, Massachusetts
some minor cold symptoms that lasted my husband and me (“co-sleeping” or
a few days, which is a very different “family bed”), and our diet of nourish- FAT DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
health status for us! And, after seeing re- ing foods as outlined by the Weston A. I have seen a lot of children who eat
sults, more of my friends and family are Price Foundation. butter by the spoonfuls directly out of
following suit. Before conceiving, all through my the butter bin. That is what I call “acute
What attracted me to your website at pregnancy and to this day, my diet has fat deficiency syndrome.” They also lick
first was the absence of advertisements included cod liver oil, lacto-fermented the butter off the sandwich and then
and the fact that many statements in vegetables, raw milk products, eggs throw the bread away. Wise parents give
the articles I read were backed up with from local free-range chickens and the child more butter as the child signals
documentation that I could read my- organ meats. I am forty years old; fat deficiency.
self. These facts alone distinguish the my husband is fifty-five. After sev- In 1991, I wrote an article with the

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