Coeliac and pregnancy

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Hi I'm just wondering if anyone has experience of being coeliac and pregnant. I'm newly diagnosed (blood test only, waiting on endoscopy but will be after pregnancy now)
With a new diagnosis and only 5 weeks pregnant I'm only getting my head around my diet.
I accidentally ate gluten products. Stupidly didn't read a packet properly - I don't know how, it had a sponge base! It was little ice cream/yogurt type bars from aldi. I've ate a couple of them over the past couple of weeks and before I realised I was pregnant. It was the only thing I could stomach in the morning. Now I'm freaked out thinking have I damaged the baby.
I'm so upset and have started developing a fear of food, I don't want to eat anything apart from fruit as I feel like I can't trust myself.
Anyone had similar circumstances that could give some reassurance.

You haven't damaged the baby. The issue will be that if you continue to eat gluten you will become unwell. You will also possibly have really bad stomach pains and gas and diarrhoea. But unless you gorge on gluten to the point that your body can't function presently, baby will be fine. We coeliacs always get contaminated from time to time. Usually it's no big deal. Sometimes you get no reaction from a single incident. Sometimes you get a big gassy/runny bum/pain. But it passes quickly as long as you stop eating gluten. It's regular consumption that damaged the gut. Really, baby is fine. X

Thank you. I think I just needed to hear it from someone else beside my DH. I'm so worried about these early stages, combined with trying to cut out gluten, I've turned into a mess.

You won’t have hurt baby.

There’s some good FB support groups such as coeliacs in the U.K. if you’re on fb.

If you’re newly diagnosed and probably still have damaged villi then you might struggle absorbing vitamins, etc. You could well benefit from a higher dose of vit D than the recommended dose in pregnancy. Ask your midwife....or possibly research it yourself as she may not know. Are you anaemic? You have a higher risk of developing anaemia in pregnancy and even more so with newly diagnosed coeliac so be alert for symptoms.

I'm have an allergy to both gluten and dairy not coeliac but I have had some "bad" foods now and again. It's only harmed me in really bad tummy and constipation/diarrhoea but baby is fine. I'm taking vitamins etc to help due to not being able to eat certain foods but the midwife and doctors said I'm fine with what I'm eating and the baby will take all nutrients from me.
Hope that helps put your mind at rest.

You won’t hurt the baby. The coeliac diagnosis rate is something like 24% so if you think of it like that, there’s 76% of people with coeliac disease who don’t know it; say half of them being women who might go their whole pregnancy eating gluten day on day out! I had Crohn’s and flared first trimester and my very chunky baba is currently sleeping upstairs.