How is eating healthy bucking the trend? I can't advise you on eating paleo during pregnancy, but I can only imagine it would be better for the baby than a crap diet (assuming you are also taking vitamins). My best advise would be to talk to a nutritionist - specifically one who isn't anti-primal/paleo. You may need to flex a bit into some other type of paleo (e.g., one not so stringent) in order to get all the necessary nutrients (but I'm not a nutritionist, so I can't tell you much).

I only wish I had known about Paleo/Primal when I was pregnant (9 year and 9 months ago). I probably wouldn't still be fighting the baby weight!

Congrats!

Going aways back, Angelo Coppola, the host of Latest in Paleo, kept his listeners up-to-date with his wife's pregnancy. He did a very good job relating all the concerns, problems, and triumphs along the way. I've not yet spoken with him, but he's always struck me as a nice fellow, and may give some pointers or something if you drop him an e-mail.

Pregnancy is what has caused me to give Paleo/Primal a go
I have had 2 babies who were 10lb 11oz and 11lb...I didn't have GD but Im' sure my carb-filled diet contributed to them being so large.

Unless you have diabetes, carb eating won't make you have big babies. I think genetic plays a much larger role in what size the babies will be at birth. My carb crazy pregnancy with extreme weight gain lead to below average size babies both times. My first baby was 7 lb 4 oz , despite the fact I ate like a madman and gained almost 75 lb during pregnancy.
Second baby was 1 oz short of 7 lb , and again extreme carb addict pregnancy and i gained 60 lb .
Both times I took prescription grade prenatal vitamins starting months prior pregnancy, and both baby extremely healthy.
I am 5'8" and my hubby is over 6'2" , so we are not small people. Still at birth my babies were slightly below average weight, which i am thankful as it lead to easy and fast birth. Both babies became large 75 percentile or bigger by the time they were 2 months old, so they are not genetically small kids.

I was actually a bit worried how going back to primal would effect my milk supply, but my baby gaining weight with astonishing speed. This was the case with my baby #1 too, and I ate regular high carb diet back than.

Honestly , I do not think babies affected that much by the mom diet unless there is malnutrition or problems like pregnancy diabetes. The baby takes away what she/ he needs and mom body has to deal with the rest.

You should check out this blog - http://www.growinguppaleo.com/

She writes about both her pregnancies and was paleo during that time. Congrats and good luck!

My son is now 22 and without realizing it I ate very primal during his pregnancy....I remember cooking hamburgers and steaks bloody rare, eating sashimi (reputable source), rice and potatoes (sweet and yams), olive oils, etc. anything grain-ish like pancakes, breads and the like would upset my stomach.

That was 1990 and I didn't know a damn thing except what felt "good". Even the pre-natals made me ill, so I never took them!

I only gained 30 pounds total with him and he weighed 8 pounds 2 oz at birth, I lost the rest within 2 weeks.

So, how did my son turn out? Top student all through K-12 and finished college in 4 years, now on career path and making some big corporate bucks....I could tell you what his IQ is but that is just too much bragging. :bigsmile:

Funny thing....he is allergic to dairy.......

OH & CONGRATULATIONS!