Plant based / vegan pregnancy?

Question

Any moms eat a plant based diet? If so how to make sure your getting all your key ingredients? Also list what you eat?

Answer

I’m 28 weeks pregnant and have been vegan for 5 years. I chose to have a midwife team instead of an OB but that’s only based on person preference. My midwives support my vegan diet and the only thing they recommended I take extra of was B12 (because I’m vegan) and iron (which they recommend to everyone, vegan or not).
I pretty much eat the same as I did before pregnancy. Lots of veggies, fruit, rice dishes, pastas, tofu and tempeh, etc. I’m gaining a little more weight than recommended and healthy so I’m definitely not deficient in anything I need.

Answer

I don’t but Iron and B12 are extremely important, make sure you take supplements along with your normal prenatals.
Also as an Australian Vegemite is a good source of B12 😜

Answer

My friend is, she was sent to special midwife in hospital, who works with nutrition issues in pregnant people. I was sent there when I had GD diagnosed, but she was sent there from start to discuss and go trough everything she eats and should eat and add etc for it to be best to grow a baby. She got some great advice as far as I know. I also know she went still severely anemic at the end, and was asked to consider some red meat and animal based hemoglobin pills and liquid iron, because they absorbed the best, so she made an exeprions to her veganism at the end, to avoid hospitalization.

Plant based / vegan pregnancy?

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