Re: Re: Seeking help for a friend's pregnant daughter.

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I'm 7 months pregnant and agree with high protein. I would literally have to

force feed myself eggs or meat because i had such terrible food aversions,

but then felt miraculously better after. The only time i threw up was after

eating pasta. Carbs and wheat in particular were instant severe nausea for

me.

Elaine

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Hi Doctor,

I think we " met " on another list, discussing homebirth! What a small world.

Here's my two cents on barfing while pregnant. I wish I could have fought the

starch cravings, because I think they only made me sicker. During my second

pregnancy I felt best while eating plain old good old meat, all by itself! One

night I gobbled down a steak before bed and when I woke up I thougth I was no

longer pregnant because I felt so great! I know this is kinda repeating

Micheal's advice, but it worked for me. Unfortunately, I didn't listen to

myself then, and continued to eat a lot of junk and gained way too much weight

with each of my pregnancies, dut to what I think was a blood sugar problem. You

know those glucose tests they make you take where you have to eat 100 grams of

sugar before your blood work? Instead of causing me to be hyper glycemic, my

blood would come back pretty low, low enough to make the midwife get out the

almonds and rest a while.

Good luck to your friend! Also, has she read the brewer's diet for pregnant

women? They recommend 100 grams of protein per day, lots of eggs, etc. I can't

remember the name of the book, but I am pretty sure Brewer was the last name of

the people who wrote it.

Maureen

" Dr. Marasco <mmarasco@...> " <mmarasco@...>

wrote:Well You can start with the premise that she is either very tiny or

very malnourished. The fact that she's vomiting so much indicates

that she's got some pretty hard core blood sugar issues. The number

one most important thing with her is for her to eat as much as

possible as often as possible without vomiting or getting nauseous.

For some this means 1/2 ounce of steak every 20 minutes for others

its a couple pieces of sourdough bread every couple hours. It

really is wide and varied. If she were my client I'd start with raw

milk, cream, eggs. If she's not inclined to do raw then pasturized

whole milk, and eggs cooked as little as she's willing. Again

she'll need to test the amounts and timing. she might handle and

egg an hour or a tablespoon of milk every 20 minutes. It really

depends upon her tolerance. For many women in this situation the

only thing they are willing to look at is starch. So with them I'd

first discourage that and then cave ;-) this is a pregnant woman

we're speaking of ;-) So at the very least some very high quality

sprouted grain bread with lots of butter and or preferrably egg.

And again at time intervals and amounts she can stand. This by no

means is a full plan for her entire pregnancy but this approach can

get her off of square one and from there she can build on it.

DMM

www.cedarcanyonclinic.com

> My friend's daughter is pregnant. She was 95 lbs. when she became

> pregnant and hasn't been able to gain much weight with this

pregnancy.

> She's 105 lbs. now. Everything she eats she throws up and so she

has to

> eat little amounts at a time to keep anything down. She was

wondering

> what would be the best foods to eat for the pregnancy, to help in

> gaining weight and to produce a healthy baby that won't cause her

to

> throw-up, since she can't eat a whole lot.

> Thanks!

> Robin