Do you keep it during pregnancy or would you break it for the child’s sake.
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Omnivore’s tend to be more nutrition deficient than Vegans. What do you mean by “breaking it for the child’s sake”?
Well, I agree, but the fact that non vegans tend to have certain deficiencies more often doesn’t mean that a vegan diet is 100% safe. So again, I agree but it’s not like a good argument if you ask me
I have to admit that we broke with it in pregnancy.
But the reason was that we searched for the latest information about eating vegan during pregnancy and it was a bit confusing. Some sources said it’s save when you have some food supplements (which we had), but others said there is always a certain risk especially in regard to cholin. So that’s why my wife decided that she will eat eggs. She also had this inner desire for it during pregnancy that you typically get when you miss out on any nutrient (like when your body needs iron, you might get this inner desire for foods that are high in iron) and that was gone within a week after our child was born.
And I say “we broke” because it was our decision. I personally didn’t change anything. We found a local source for the eggs where the circumstances for the chicken could be described as the best circumstances you can have, although I don’t know where they get their chicken from (probably from the industry)
Btw, I always said that I wouldn’t change anything, not even in pregnancy if there is no latest evidence proving the vegan diet to be very risky, but when you are at that point, you wan’t it to be 100% safe. So that’s why we figured that we will do it that way
Break it for the child’s sake? What do you mean by that? As long as you keep it safe for the child, there is no issue and therefore no reason to not be vegan during pregnancy
For me, the questions is rather “what supplements do you consider a ‘must take’ during pregnancy” :)
Just know some people my wife included worry about the child getting everything it needs…
Edit: Oh sorry, this was one year ago. I didn’t see
Same here. We were worried as well, although everything seemed fine because we had expensive supplements all the way. However, my wife then decided to eat eggs again because she was too scared that she was not eating enough of certain nutrients (this was based on scientific research about vegan diets during pregnancy and one key nutrient was cholin, which is high in eggs, plus extreme cravings my wife started to have for eggs out of nowhere during pregnancy)