[Greaseball]

I'm doing it! It sure is a lot of food. I hear that if you follow it, not only will you and your baby be extremely healthy, but the baby will be at least 10 lbs and you will go 2 or 3 weeks past your due date. That would be convenient, since then maybe Greasedroplet would arrive after finals!

Any Brewer veterans have anything to share?

 

[kama'aina mama]

I followed from about 5 months on. Bonnie was 8lbs 8oz, born the day before her due date. Brewer focuses on virtually no GD and no pre-eclampsia, also healthy babies with good Apgars. I have never read any claims of lengthened gestation or increased weight. I will be interested to follow this thread!

 

[Jster]

I also followed it a bit lessened in the first half of my first pregnancy and pretty well from about 5/6 months on. But my baby was 7lbs, 12 oz, and only 6 days late, soo....

I think I was healthy, but I did develop pregnancy induced hypertension (white coat hypertension, I believe, all caused because I didn't like my doctor) and my doctor started threatening me with preeclampsia. I actually called the Brewer hotline and talked to Dr. Brewer, as well as buying "What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know" and it was quite a relief. He was a wonderful person to talk to and gave me the added courage to switch doctors a week before my due date...

I did gain a lot of weight, but I've lost it all and then some. I'm thinking this time around that I'll do a sort of modified, and perhaps try not to drink quite so much chocolate milk

(I can't stomach white milk, and don't drink any unless I'm pregnant). But good luck with your own pregnancy!! One thing I think does lengthen gestation for some women is to avoid any internal exams, especially if you have a care provider like my first who will strip membranes without consent.

 

[AmyG]

I did it and had a 6 lb 9 oz baby at 35 weeks. But it's entirely possible that he would have been earlier and smaller if I hadn't.

 

[kerikadi]

I followed it last time - just not as diligent this time

: However, I dind't eat as much dairy as he recommended and didn't drink much milk at all as my MW is not a fan of dairy.
I didn't think it was too much food, you just have to make sure that you eat efficiently

My outcome was the same as kama'aina mama. My babe was also one day early and also weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces. My MW has all of her clients follow a high protein, no sugar diet and going over dates is more norm and so they do have bigger babies but I have never heard that the baby would be at least 10 pounds and you would be 2 weeks late. I think most of my MWs babes are 9 pounders.

Keri

 

[mamarsupial]

i didn't follow the brewer diet, but DID do a very high protein diet throughout this pregnancy. i had PIH with dd...no issues at all this time. i also passed my GD 1 hour...but developed GD at week 37. i think it didn't show up until so very late because i was eating so well. with dd, i also became VERY swollen at about 32 weeks...haven't had much swelling at all this time.

 

[fireflies~for~me]

YUp was GD-or I should say "glucose intolerant"-I was really startinmg to lose confidence until I switched docs. I had been following Brewer diet already (our lifestyle diet matched his anyway) so I knew knew knew that I did not need to be treated as high risk. Henci Goer's work is so clear and reading that gave me increased confidence as well!!

Anyway, I delivered on my due date-8 lbs. 3 oz...that was spontaneous labor with no additional ultrasounds, no non-stress test, no induction,etc.

Best Wishes!!!

 

[its_our_family]

Do you have any good links. I kinda looked into it but nothing serious. As for eating dairy...is gives me gas

stinky gas! And milk is almost 4 bucks a gallon!

So, I would be interested in reading more about it.....

 

[boobykinmamma]

I somewhat followed the Brewer diet with my most recent pregnancy. DS was IUGR (Intrauterine Growth Retardation, in his case caused by placental insufficiency), so I wanted to make sure I had a normal-sized baby this time around (he weighed 3lb5oz, probably full term). I didn't measure my protein intake exactly, but ate protein just about everytime I ate something. I can't handle drinking milk either--I get terribly bloated, but I ate tons of yogurt and cheese, and used fortified soy milk on cereal. I also had a really hard time eating green leafy veggies (kale, chard, etc.), throughout the whole pregnancy, even when my morning sickness ended. I did eat two eggs almost every single day, and I am STILL kinda tired of eggs at 7 months pp. DD was born at 36 weeks (midwife wasn't concerned--she said I probably just "cook" fast), and dd weiged 5'11, so she probably would have been an average weight by full term. I gained about 35 lbs. and lost it in about 5 months, plus about an extra 5. My midwife said she followed the Brewer Diet for 2 of her pregnancies and gained about 90 pounds, but lost it all within 6 weeks!

 

[Mere]

I followed the diet with dd1, and she was born about a week and a half before her due date. She weighed 6lbs. 11oz.

I think it's a great diet, and I have just started to follow it for this pregnancy.

 

[LisaG]

Megan,

Check out:

http://www.blueribbonbaby.org

LisaG