Pregnancy on Keto?
LaurenBraddy
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Eeeeee! I just found out I'm pregnant with no 2! Exciting and terrifying news. I plan on staying low carb, but I see conflicting info on ketosis during pregnancy. Does anyone have any insight? It will still be a few weeks until my first doctor appointment, so I can't pick her brain yet. Has anyone stayed low carb during pregnancy, and what were your macros?
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Congratulations!
It's tempting to think that you need to go back to the whole grain way during pregnancy, but the fact is, plenty of people stay low carb while they are pregnant (and even raise their kids low carb, or ZERO carb).
Lots of experiences about that here:
http://zerocarbzen.com/tag/pregnancy/
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Thank you! I do hope to stay low carb this time. I feel so good while low carb, I can't see how it could be bad for a pregnancy...even though I will be ditching 100% the artificial sweeteners. I am just0
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You might catch a lot of flack from your doctor, so you may just want to refer to your eating plan as "avoiding starches and sugars" which most people can agree with. Funny how semantics change the reception of information!!0
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if you Reddit, r/ketobabies0
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I think you should find a doctor you trust, and have an honest discussion with him/her. While getting input here is fine, you should also heavily weight input from a medical professional who has an open mind about keto. You should NEVER hide information like that, if your relationship with your doctor is such that you feel you have to cover it up, get another doctor.0
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My doctor is cool, (a family friend), and actually encouraged my "low carb start" as one of the most effective ways to lose weight. Obviously, weight loss is no longer my goal, I just wanted to see if anyone else had any thoughts on low carb or keto while pregnant. While I plan on staying healthy, and avoiding the whites and the sugars, I am certainly not going to be as strict. Hell, my prenatals are 5ish carbs alone. Eating at my maintenance level, I don't even know that keto will be an issue.
I appreciated the articles, and I'll have to check out reddit. Thank y'all.0 -
If you (or anyone watching) want lower carb prenatals, these are pretty awesome: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004C55VOE
(I am giving all this advice as a child-free-by-choice person. I use the prenatals for the Biotin!
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I would like to follow you to see how it goes. Although my husband and I are not actively trying to conceive, we are not avoiding also. Can I add you?0
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Congratulations!
I had my last long before I started keto but I wanted to wish you luck. It seems like a safe thing to do but I honestly don't know. If I was starting over, I'd most likely stay keto.
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LaurenBraddy wrote: »Eeeeee! I just found out I'm pregnant with no 2! Exciting and terrifying news. I plan on staying low carb, but I see conflicting info on ketosis during pregnancy. Does anyone have any insight? It will still be a few weeks until my first doctor appointment, so I can't pick her brain yet. Has anyone stayed low carb during pregnancy, and what were your macros?
Congrats.
If I had it to do over again, I'd choose keto for all my pregnancies.
I was on a lower-carb diet (less than 120g) for my last pregnancy due to gestational diabetes. It was too high in carbs still and I had to take a med. He was born 8lb 9oz and 21.5in. Healthy as can be. I proceeded to go lower carb, close to keto-macros while I was breastfeeding him. I breast fed him for 21 months. No supply problems. Now he's 4 and is an evil-genius-Einstein.
Just focus on getting your electrolytes, fats, and enough calories and you should be fine.0 -
Congratulations!!
I'm also in early pregnancy, I'm not doing keto because I don't feel that there have been enough studies into keto and pregnancy. I have to do what makes me feel safe and happy. I'm having a moderate amount of carbs, about 70-90g. I don't think I even count as low carb now.
I'm also upping my exercise to hopefully make good use of those carbs.
The only prenatals I take I iodine and folic acid, I don't have a clue how many carbs are in those tablets but they are tiny, they only weigh a gram each.
I figure that I have my whole life to worry about my body, I can modify my eating plan for this short time as I am unsure about keto and pregnancy. I'm not going to keep doing it just on the word of strangers in the internet, a clever as I think they are on here :-)0 -
hellobaconplease wrote: »Congratulations!!
I'm also in early pregnancy, I'm not doing keto because I don't feel that there have been enough studies into keto and pregnancy. I have to do what makes me feel safe and happy. I'm having a moderate amount of carbs, about 70-90g. I don't think I even count as low carb now.
I'm also upping my exercise to hopefully make good use of those carbs.
The only prenatals I take I iodine and folic acid, I don't have a clue how many carbs are in those tablets but they are tiny, they only weigh a gram each.
I figure that I have my whole life to worry about my body, I can modify my eating plan for this short time as I am unsure about keto and pregnancy. I'm not going to keep doing it just on the word of strangers in the internet, a clever as I think they are on here :-)
Congratulations.
And yes, you qualify as low carb. I've seen low carb as anything under 100 of 150g, and there was a past member who even stayed in ketosis at carb levels much higher than 150g.
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vazquezmom7 wrote: »I would like to follow you to see how it goes. Although my husband and I are not actively trying to conceive, we are not avoiding also. Can I add you?
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hellobaconplease wrote: »Congratulations!!
I'm also in early pregnancy, I'm not doing keto because I don't feel that there have been enough studies into keto and pregnancy. I have to do what makes me feel safe and happy. I'm having a moderate amount of carbs, about 70-90g. I don't think I even count as low carb now.
I'm also upping my exercise to hopefully make good use of those carbs.
The only prenatals I take I iodine and folic acid, I don't have a clue how many carbs are in those tablets but they are tiny, they only weigh a gram each.
I figure that I have my whole life to worry about my body, I can modify my eating plan for this short time as I am unsure about keto and pregnancy. I'm not going to keep doing it just on the word of strangers in the internet, a clever as I think they are on here :-)
Congratulations to you too!! I'd love to follow you as well if that's alright? (my reference to the carby prenatals is because I take the gummy ones...unfortunately they are the only ones I can keep down!)
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I took a prescription called dilectin (sp?) to help with nausea. It worked to decrease my vomiting but it made me somewhat groggy and I was still nauseated to a lesser degree.
Pregnancy nausea is no fun.
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