Starting to eat meat while pregnant?

Question

I’ve been Vegetarian for 3 years now, but now i’m 9 weeks pregnant and i’m CRAVING chicken & salmon. I’m debating maybe having some, but I just worry if that will be okay during pregnancy since i haven’t had it in over 3 years, could that harm my baby or my pregnancy? Could it shock my body in a way that would cause harm?

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If your craving something like that then it’s your body and baby needing that chicken has protein in it and so does beef so if your craving it eat it!!

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No you’ll be fine.

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Won’t harm the pregnancy but I always know when I’ve accidentally eaten meat or when someone’s lied to me and fed it to me on purpose because I get the shits. It’s very unpleasant. Have you tried fake meat? I get “chicken” patties made out of mushrooms and tofu. Same with ground “beef” so I can make tacos. Same taste but no actual meat so no tummy issues.

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Vegetarias/vegans I know who reintroduced meat had one complaint...constipation! My friend told me she had to just do it slowly eg small amounts and just once or twice a week and slowly build up. It definitely wont harm the baby though, just increase roughage with it.

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I was vegan for almost 6 years until this pregnancy. Ive been dealing with some other issues that left me unable to eat most of the vegan foods I was used to eating for so long. I was starving and starting to craving eggs so bad so I started eating them and cheese too. I’ve had meat once and I’ll probably have some again. 
But my advice is to just take it slow, that way you don’t hurt your stomach! The first meat I tried was just some oven roasted turkey slices because I figured it would be a lot lighter on my stomach than something like beef.

Starting to eat meat while pregnant?

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