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Joy M. Jones, RN: Consultant and educator in maternal/newborn health and nutrition; owner of Perinatal Support Services; former Childbirth Educator of the Bradley Method; Doula/Labor Assistant; manager of HealthWise Lending Library (200+ books of childbirth and parenting); book reviewer for NAPSAC News, Imprints(ICEA), and Bookmarks/Birth & Life Bookstore (1980's and 1990's). Author,"Gestational Diabetes: Myth or Metabolism?"(1988), "The Brewer Pregnancy Diet" (1994), and "Illinois Midwifery Roundtable: A Promise for Progress". Two entries, "Brewer Pregnancy Diet" and "Diabetes: Clinical and Gestational", in Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives, by Barbara Katz Rothman (1993). Guest speaker for grade school and high school health classes, and a community college sociology class (1980's). Married, and mother of two sons.

Graduate of West Suburban Hospital School of Nursing (Oak Park, IL), 1974. Staff nurse 1974-1975 (Chicago, IL); nursing personnel pool 1977-1979 (NY,NY). Apprentice to homebirth CNM 1977-1979 (NY,NY). Volunteer in Sudan and Kenya 1979-1980. Certified HOME leader in 1983. Certified by AAHCC (Bradley) in 1985. Participant in Peterson/Mehl workshops in 1983 and 1986. Illinois Co-ordinator for Alternative Birth Crisis Coalition 1984-1985. Member of AAHCC, ICEA, LLLI, NAG, and NAPSAC, 1980's and 1990's. Presentor: Helping Hands Homebirth Conference (Apprentice Academics) June 1988-"Gestational Diabetes" and "The Professional Doula". MANA Southeast Regional Conference, July 1989-"Gestational Diabetes". Indiana Midwives Association, September 1989-"Gestational Diabetes" and "The Professional Doula". Perinatal Health and Fitness Network, November 1989-"Gestational Diabetes". Midwife's Assistant for 3 midwifery practices, approx. 1995 to present.

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Introduction The Brewer Diet consists of 14 food groups which a mother can choose from daily or weekly.[1] However, the diet can be summarized as having four basic components: 2600 calories, 80-120 grams of protein, salt to taste, and unrestricted weight gain. The specifics of the diet have been compiled by Dr. Tom Brewer, an obstetrician, after years of studying the research and information available since 1929, on the effects of nutrition in pregnancy.[2] He has been able to see his philosophy used to prevent or treat various complications of pregnancy, including PIH (elevated blood pres...

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