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Feb 04, 2004
Support from New Chapter's Council of Midwives


New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal™ multivitamin is proud to be a featured sponsor of the 2004 issue of Every Baby Magazine, the definitive guide to pregnancy, birth, and the first year for expectant families within the US. Every Baby is a publication of the American College of Nurse Midwives (“ACNM”). Our sponsorship does not indicate any formal endorsement of New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal™ multivitamin by ACNM, but it reflects New Chapter's continuing commitment to the principles of ACNM and the growing nurse midwife movement.

We at New Chapter look forward to our sponsorship of Every Baby Magazine and continued support for ACNM’s important mission.

Listen to The Real Side of Birth — Nancy Angelini from New Chapter and Doula Jewel Hernandez discuss the importance of prenatal vitamins.


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“This is the most comprehensive and safe whole-food Prenatal Vitamin available today.”

—Deborah Marin,
Founder Hollywood Birth Center, Hollywood, FL
Licensed Midwife for 17 years



“I use a variety of the New Chapter products and have experienced many of the benefits from the whole food complex. I have found that they are much more absorbable and easier for my body to digest. New Chapter’s supplements have been proven to be more active in the body, so lower dosages can be taken while giving you the same benefit as a higher dosage would in a different product. For this reason I highly recommend New Chapter's Perfect Prenatal multivitamin to my Doula clients. When choosing a prenatal, think about what is going to be most beneficial for you and your baby.”

—Marily Evans, LMT,
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts
Scottsdale, AZ


“My nutritional interests lie in the transformational aspects of pregnancy and nutrition for the growing child and newborn. A child deserves to be nourished with wholeness, so that she can achieve her greatest potential as a human being in relationship to life as a whole. She should not be damaged from poor nutrition or environmental pollution. My only interest is in the extraordinary, not ordinary, well being and potential of the growing baby. Optimally, if a women is planning to have a baby, I recommend she start taking New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal 3-5 years prior to conceiving. From the moment of conception the baby’s brain is developing, and for both mother and child to have enough phytonutrients for the 9 month gestation process, they each need the most available supply of nutrients they can possibly get. New Chapter has always been on the cutting edge of the science of human nutrition, metabolism and human potential in the body with their whole-food cultured Probiotic Nutrients. Perfect Prenatal is the perfect supply of those available nutrients and I cannot recommend it enough.”

—Lalitha Thomas, Herbalist, Nutritional Counselor, and Author of Ten Essential Herbs, Ten Essential Foods, and Healthy Travel. Lalitha is a lifelong aspirant in the human potential movement, and has worked with pregnant women for over 20 years, as a nutritionist, counselor and lay midwife


“As an Ob/Gyn RN, having the best possible nutritional outcome for both mother and child I work with is one of the (if not THE!) most important factors of prenatal care. I recommend nothing but New Chapter's Perfect Prenatal to all my moms; it's that simple.”

—Victoria Philips-Larson, RN,
Ob/Gyn/Labor and Delivery, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA


“As a doula (a trained birthing expert), part of the role that I play is that of information bank. A lot of the information that I gather and pass on comes from conversations with pregnant women. I hear over and over again of the efficacy of New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal. Many women have a hard time digesting prenatal vitamins, they either feel nauseated or constipated, but when they start taking New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal, these symptoms are alleviated and they feel much happier knowing that they and their babies are getting the nutritional support that they need. As a user of other New Chapter supplements, I can personally attest to the integrity of New Chapter’s products and I gladly pass the information on.”

—Jewel Hernandez, Licensed Doula in San Diego


Cindy Bacon LM, CPM, has been studying Nutrition & Alternative Health since 1981. In 1984 her first child was born at home, and thus began a love affair with birth and the midwifery model of care. She was apprentice trained in Santa Cruz California, and has been attending homebirths for over fifteen years in that area. She recommends New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal.

Miriam Pearson-Martinez holds the positions of both the Director of the Hollywood Birth Center and a birth assistant. Miriam is a mother of 2 boys as well as a doula and HypnoBirthing instructor. She is also a candidate for an Associates in midwifery, with an anticipated graduation of May 2003.

Aleksandra Evanguelidi is a birth doula and apprenticing midwife in Los Angeles. She is a nutritional consultant and culinary alchemist who specializes in vegetarian and vegan diets during pregnancy, who recommends to her moms that they only use New Chapter's Perfect Prenatal.


Christina Oertel has been studying herbs, nutrition and women's health care issues since 1991. Her coursework led her to a homebirth based midwifery apprenticeship in 1998 and included an internship in a busy clinic in Texas. Christina has worked with women in a variety of settings including home, birth centers and hospitals. Christina is pregnant right now and taking New Chapter’s Perfect Prenatal Formula.