Vegetarian and Morning Sickness
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Topic: Vegetarian and Morning Sickness
Posted By: Nutella
Subject: Vegetarian and Morning Sickness
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 5:30pm
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Okay, I want to find out from vegetarian people out there, whether they had bad morning sickness when pregnant as according to studies, vegetarian diets in some cultures have resulted in little or no morning sickness. So I am curious as to whether this is the diet resulting in this or because they have different genetic makeups!
I am curious because even though I have been feeling not 100%, I sure as heck haven't experienced any full on morning sickness yet, and I am a vegetarian! ------------- 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 11:08pm
| I'm a vego and I had hideous morning sickness with Daniel and Jared. Daniels lasted until 16ish weeks with throwing up daily and Jareds was until 19 weeks |
Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 11:18am
I'm a strict vego and sorry I had very bad ms until about 16 weeks.  In fact it's been a pretty uncomfortable pg all around....hope you have a better one lol  -------------   http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 11:45am
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Darn it, I was counting on a miracle but maybe I am a lucky one who doesn't get morning sickness since I have felt blaurgh but not too bad! -------------
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 11:53am
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I am definitely a meat eater but haven't had morning sickness, only nausea. I don't think it really matters what diet you are on, except perhaps when you are on a healthy/not-healthy diet. -------------  |
Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 1:18pm
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lol I hope so for your sake hun....but remember it might still be to come On the plus side of being a vego- and the other vegos can let you know if this was the case for them- I've had a really healthy diet throughout my pg and not put on much weight at all... ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Nat wrote:
I was sitting at about 8 kilos weight gain...until these last couple of weeks then I've been eating everything not nailed down lol..so the total is maybe 11 kilos. But it's ALL baby.
Posted By: KitKat
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 2:29pm
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I cant see why there'd be any correlation between being a vego, or meat eater and morning sickness.
Id have thought there were numerous factors at play. ------------- 
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 3:23pm
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Apparently studies have shown that the people in cultures that rarely eat meat, tend not to get morning sickness! That is why I was wondering because it would just as likely be something in their genetic makeup that stops them getting sick.
I think the studies were based on how the liver was functioning with vegos having better liver function or something coz of not having to process meat or something like that! Considering no-one knows what causes ms it seemed a bit of a long straw and def by the response so far is a lot of rubbish in NZ society! -------------
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Posted By: LadyLizard
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 4:06pm
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I am a meat eater and didn't get much MS, just nausea and queasiness which went away when I ate something.
Worst of it was around 8-10 weeks (sorry!) I don't know about vegos always having "healthier" diets- alot of the very unhealthy things that I have been craving haven't been meat products at all! (bread, cheese, chocolate, crackers, chippies, hot cross buns..!) they aren't vegan though.. Maybe you just have more willpower than I do Emmecat. Having said that though eating is pretty much back to normal now and total weight gain so far is only 6kg which seems to have stabilised (for now!!!) so I am feeling pretty good about that. ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 5:08pm
| I don't know about the vego thing and not gaining that much weight either. With Daniel even with throwing up daily by the time I was full term I had gained 30kg and that is NOT at all healthy and he was only 7lb 12oz so not massive either. It took ages to loose that weight. |
Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 7:26pm
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Totally agree that vegos don't always have healthier diets.... *I* have a healthy diet but yes it's very easy to eat just as much crap on a vego diet as a meat eating one. Think it comes down to individual makeup rather than willpower probably. I definately suprised myself about not gaining much weight as I always thought I'd put on heaps when pg. But just cos I haven't gained much doesn't mean I'll lose what I have put on easily lol. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Lizze
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 4:10pm
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i'm a vego, and no morning sickness yet :)
My mum said she got it at 5 weeks, but I'm still waiting. I feel 100% not pregnant, but my bloods say I am, and I'm having a scan tomorrow. I'm also taking B6 and Zinc supplements so maybe that helps. ------------- 
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Posted By: Shezzey
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 10:18pm
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Hi Lizze, how much B6 are you taking? I posted a link on the Dec site that indicated that too much B6 can be dangerous for developing bubs. |
Posted By: Lizze
Date Posted: 12 May 2009 at 9:36am
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Hi Shezhoping...
It's through my naturopath... I think it's about 30 micrograms? It's called P-5-P I was taking the Blackmores B6 for morning sickness and the health shop warned against taking it for too long because the other B vitamins get out of sync -------------
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Posted By: SBM
Date Posted: 15 May 2009 at 2:21pm
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I'm a vege and had some morning sickness for maybe 2-3 weeks in the first trimester - just felt really nauseus in the afternoon/evening but never actually threw up.
I imagine there's a lot more to those people of other cultures who don't eat a lot of meat - they also probably don't live in big cities and inhale loads of pollution and smother themselves in chemicals etc! |