Grow Healthy Babies

There are few things more confusing and frustrating than googling for health advice. The internet is full of contradictory anecdotes, conflicting advice, and weird wonder cures. What if you want to find out how to prevent your baby from having chronic diseases, what can you do to cut through all of this noise? When lifelong asthma, eczema, and allergy sufferers Michelle Henning, a certified Nutrition & Health Coach, and her husband Dr. Victor Henning decided to start a family, they were well aware that half of all babies born today will develop allergies, and up to a third will become asthmatic or suffer from eczema. Using their combined backgrounds in nutrition and science to sift through thousands of scientific papers in an effort to learn as much as they could, they began investigating a mountain of medical literature on how to prevent chronic illness so that their baby would grow up healthy.

In Grow Healthy Babies: The Evidence-Based Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy and Reducing Your Child’s Risk of Asthma, Eczema, and Allergies, the Hennings share their research by distilling the latest medical evidence into a practical, easy to read guide that provides expecting parents with clear and simple steps to lower a baby's risk of developing a chronic condition by up to 90%. With the goal of empowering parents-to-be or those planning to get pregnant with information about simple choices that improve their health and their child’s health, they cover a multitude of topics including:

- You can make a difference: By making different choices during/after pregnancy, you have the power to shape your baby’s health for life

- How your baby's immune system develops, and how you can strengthen it to prevent chronic illness

- How friendly bacteria, your microbiome, shape both your and your baby's health, and how to protect and improve your microbiome

- Which food choices and supplements during and after pregnancy make a real difference to your baby's health, according to scientific studies

- Why environmental factors and certain household products can trigger chronic disease, and how to choose healthier alternatives

- How birth choices and breastfeeding can influence your baby's long-term health

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Michelle Henning is a certified Nutrition & Health Coach, writer, and graduate of the Irish Institute of Nutrition & Health. Her articles on food, nutrition, parenting and health have been featured in WIRED Magazine, Pathways to Family Wellness, BabyCenter, and many other outlets.

Dr. Victor Henning is an award-winning scientist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and founder of Mendeley, a leading scientific collaboration platform. He is a former Adjunct Associate Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, has published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has been featured in The New York Times and The Guardian.