Thinking About Getting Pregnant?
Congratulations on Your Pregnancy! (for
those who are newly pregnant)
What is a healthy pregnancy weight gain?
Can I continue to eat a vegetarian diet
during pregnancy?
A Pregnancy Menu For You and Your Baby
Treating Nausea and Vomiting
What About Seafood?
Don't Eat That!
Pregnancy and Cholesterol
Wash Those Veggies!
Breastmilk, the Healthiest Diet for Babies
What DOES that Broccoli Do for My Baby?
Vitamin D Supplements in Pregnancy and
Breastfeeding
New Research Affirms Individualized
Vitamin D Supplementation for Pregnant Women
Breastfeeding: Developing a
Future Gourmet
What to Do About The Flu
Gestational Diabetes
Decreasing the Risk of Gestation Diabetes
Keeping and Storing Breastmilk
Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines – Do
We Need New Ones?
Breastfeeding: A Woman's Health
Issue
Eating During Labor
Probiotics and a Decreased Risk of
Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy - a Time to be Active!
Clearing the Air : Quit Smoking for
You and Your Child
What is a Healthy Pregnancy Diet for
Obese Women?
Does Iron Intake Matter?
One Fish, Two Fish... Full Term Birth?
Folic acid in pregnancy and language development
A Mediterranean Diet, Pre-Pregnancy
There is No Substitute for a Healthy Diet
Honest
Healthy Diets for Babies
Exercise for New Moms
A Healthy Pre-Pregnancy Diet
and Gestational Diabetes
Vitamin D and Gestational Diabetes
Great News About Breastfeeding
Peanuts and Pregnancy
Fried Foods and Gestational Diabetes
Iodine supplements - should you take them?
Prevent Gestational Diabetes with a Mediterranean-style diet
FDA Updates Recommendations for Fish Consumption in Pregnancy
Faith
is a nurse who has supported birthing families for years. She has
an Associate degree in Nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical
Center and a Bachelors degree in Nursing from Purdue.
Faith started life with an early appreciation for good food (Thanks for the breast milk, Mom!). Whether learning to make compost for the vegetable garden from her father, Pennsylvania Dutch pies from her mother, or being given the freedom to experiment in the family kitchen, healthy food was an important part of growing up.
Using medical knowledge to care for others was also important. Whether applying band aids and salve to scrapes or bringing tea and toast to those “under the weather,” Faith felt a calling early in life to help those in need of healthcare.
Faith's passion in nursing is to help people find the options they need to discover their personal path to optimum health. Ask her friends and they will tell you that their appreciation of nutritious food has grown through Faith. Nutrition is an important part of health. The body can only build with the tools that nutrition provides. Quality food meets the nutrient needs of the body. Preparing and enjoying satisfying foods feeds the whole person.
Faith has taught various health topics including childbirth classes and first aid and is active in natural farming circles. She is currently part of an interdisciplinary research team exploring the role of social support for women who have miscarried.
Faith has spent much of her life in the Midwest but recently re-located to the Mississippi gulf coast. She enjoys cooking for family and friends, teaching on nutrition and health, and volunteering at a free health clinic. She is using her free time to expand her repertoire of fresh seafood dishes!