Paleo during pregnancy

[crazycranberry]

Hi, a few months ago I started following a Paleo lifestyle to help with an auto immune condition I was diagnosed with. I am now 7weeks pregnant and want to know if anyone else out there has successfully managed to stick to the Paleo guidelines through pregnancy?
Has it helped? Have you found it hard to stick to?
Thanks

I've eaten Paleo in the past and wanted to go back to it once pregnant - was off and on / low carb generally. However I felt nauseous so much in the first trimester than it was really hard to go straight for the protein, especially in the morning. I found I had to eat toast or cereal first thing - like straight away! And then had protein an hour or so later. Sometimes protein first made me throw up, though I didn't do this often.

I then tried to limit carbs and always eat with protein but found it stressful, so from about 20 weeks have been eating what I feel like, with an eye on gentle nutrition.

So I'd say see what you can tolerate and don't over stress if your body seems to want other things.

Hi Crazy

I'm pretty much paleo all the time, and managed to stick to it pretty strictly until I hit week 7 of this pregnancy. For the past 2 weeks I've eaten nothing but marmite toast, risotto, cake, chocolate digestives and pretty much any other carb rubbish I can get my hands on.
Aside from the fact that it's the only thing that stops me feeling and being sick (also on medication), it's the only thing that I can stomach.

All my regular paleo foods went out the window and now the thought of a steak makes my mouth water but not in a good way - I'm just getting through these rough few weeks any way I can and then I'm back to the paleo once I start feeling better and can stomach my regular foods again.

I dabbled with paleo for the past few years, turned solely paleo after DS1 was born, felt fantastic, then did a Whole30 www.whole30.com to get myself back on track after my marathon in January and am going to try and stick pretty closely to it once the sickness goes.

I think once the feeling crappy bit is out the way, it should be pretty easy to stick to given the variation you can have on it and that's what I'm hoping. I'm 9+5 today so fingers crossed I've only got a couple more weeks of feeling bad!

There are quite a few good websites if you google paleo and pregnancy and the link I've provided has a good section for pregnancy. I'm not particularly evangelical about eating only grass fed beef, or ghee but that's mainly because I live on a tiny island and we don't get that here! But I stick to the principles as best I can, with some red wine thrown in here and there!

strokethefurrywall I definitely felt much better following Paleo principals and the overall inflammation in my body was greatly reduced. I was we'll up for continuing Paleo and then happily I fell pregnant. At the moment I am struggling with nausea during day & abruptly waking at night with it. I tried having bread or something when I 'think' it will help my nausea but then I suffer badly....this is also the case if I now have gluten or anything out of a packet. V.frustrating! Hopefully we can come through these early weeks and then get back to eating Paleo.

I was strict paleo for about six months before getting pregnant and feeling really good on it. Then my nausea hit at about 7 weeks and I couldn't stomach any of the food that had become my staples (especially coconut oil, bacon, oily fish and pretty much all red meat ) and could not bear the smell of anything being cooked and most food preparation made me retch! So, I too reverted to beige food (marmite on toast was a winner) and things that required no cooking (more marmite toast). Once the nausea subsided at around 14 weeks I was able to eat a more balanced diet again, but it's only recently that I can stomach coconut oil again and I'm still iffy about eggs - and my baby is 4 months old!