Spent the morning perusing the stacks of the various university libraries here, using the keywords: folklore, food, pregnancy. Didn't come up with much. Found out about a couple of clinical manifestos; one from the (US) Institute of Medicine---one called "Nutritional Status During Pregnancy and Lactation" and the other from the (US) National Research Council---"Nutrition and Fertility Interrelationships." The most promising book is a tome by one Philip Wilson called: Childbirth: Changing Ideas and Practices in Britain and America 1600 to the present." But I have to order it from another library and am having trouble doing so. Seems like it's time to contact my friendly reference librarian!
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