My due date has switched to 27th June, but please don't chuck me off
Abgirl sorry about bringing up a subject that is probably hard for you.
However there has been a lot of research done which shows the importance of protein - and other nutrients - in preventing preeclampsia. But because the people who did this research could not ethically do a controlled clinical trial, their research is not acknowledged by many. Here is a paragraph from an article in Midwifery Today:
'The research that was done was not widely accepted due to the fact that it could not include clinically controlled studies. It would not show common sense or ethics to starve a group of pregnant women in order to supply a control group. The researchers did the logical thing and used the women's previous diet and circumstances as the control (Brewer 1982). The results were amazing. Dr. Tom Brewer totally eradicated preeclampsia in specific populations where the former rates were upwards of 40 percent. He had the women eat a healthy, varied, well-balanced diet that included high quality foods, adequate protein and complex carbohydrates. He also had them drink water to thirst, salt to taste and avoid drugs. Unfortunately, the National Institutes of Health refused to publish the results because he couldn't do a clinically controlled study.'
Also I'm not trying to say that people who have preeclampsia have a bad diet. I think to get that amount of protein you need to be really conscious of putting that much into your diet. In fact the Best Odds Diet in 'What to Expect when you are Expecting' recommends the same amounts of everything - they just don't specify the types of protein such as eggs etc. they just say 4 servings of protein a day. And in our society where a lot of meat is prepacked and processed it can have a lot less protein than we think. like ham - you need to have about 10-16 slices to get one serving of protein! And 6 fishfingers etc.
I think the trouble is that doctors say 'there is no evidence that...' for a lot of things - and there is no evidence cos you can't ethically do a controlled trial on those types of things. Like if you are suspicious that heavy lifting might cause miscarriage you can't ethically take 10 pregnant women and say you 5 lift heavy things every day, and you 5 don't and we'lll see what happens. You can compare those who are in physically demanding jobs with those who aren't bu tthat wouldn't be scientific evidence.
Anyway not trying to get into an argument, bvut you might like to read that article in Midwifery Today to see where i'm coming from. And I'm trying to help people - knowing that there has been a lot of research that has eradicated preeclampsia under the right nutritional conditions. I should add that if anyone got the signs of preeclampsia they would also put them on a very high protein diet right then too, which is helpful to know in case that happens to anyone, and the symptoms would go again.
Kyte I also found that eggs in the morning didn't go too well, what I have ended up doing is eating wholegrain cereal first thing and then boiling up a tonne of eggs and eating them later in the day.
A friend who has one day different from my due date had a miscarriage this week I keep hoping mine is sticky.