Hey everyone! I am 9 weeks pregnant! Woohoo! I had a miscarriage in december before becoming vegan and it took a while for me to conceive but here i am preggo! yay! Anyways I just have a few questions. I am so nauseous and tired. I have 24/7 nausea that is only relieved by eating bread. Potatoes or any whole foods are gross to me right now. So I am not following RT4 guidelines at all. Most fruit like bananas make me want to throw up. I can stomach a bit of tangy fruit like raspberries. But other then that i'm pretty starched based right now. just wondering if anyone had intense nausea & fatigue in the first trimester and did you still eat RT4 or did you change your diet as needed? Also, I had my iron levels tested a month ago because I had intense hair loss and signs of iron deficiency and sure enough my ferritin is 17.9..which is very low. So I have started trying to eat more iron rich foods. I eat tons of greens (not right now though) and i am just cooking up a big pot of oatmeal right now to have with pumpkin and black strap molassis for meals. Any advice on how to get your iron up during pregnancy. I do try and pair iron rich foods with Vit C rich foods to.
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This is really great news!! I'm so glad for both you and Lindsay!!
When I had my 9th, I was transitioning to vegan when I was 4 months along. By the 7th month I was eating cooked and raw since it was summer. With my 10, I ate horribly junky until about the 7th month, worked hard at eating better, but too little too late - I think I had a more painful birth because of it. My 9th was an AWESOME 26 minutes of cramping and some "intense" pushes and I had her. I really believe it was working out (INSANITY only for a month when I was 5 months along!), which absolutely helps with eating better, as well as eating next to NO SALT. The first several months I mainly have to eat more often or I get severely hungry and cranky.
As far as Iron, I ate black strap molasses as well as a variety of nuts. Again, NO salt and you won't gain the unnecessary water weight. Just another encouraging word, I lost my pregnancy weight in about 2 weeks with #9 and 9 days for #10 - the other children I had to work, exercise, eat next to nothing and still take months to lose the weight. Cut the salt if you see unwanted weight gain or if you start getting those nasty cramps. Keep up on your greens (don't overdo the spinaches and kales as it affects your kidneys and they are overtaxed already) drink PLENTY of water and don't worry and you'll do just fine!
Again congratulations and I hope this helped and you have a wonderfully easy and delightful pregnancy and birth!
My vegan babies developed really well without the burping up, "colic", or any unhappiness associated with newborns. They are happier, remarkably moreso than their older siblings were.
Hope this answered your question. :)