hello,
I want to get some thoughts on this, any experiences, etc.
DH has allergies galore. And recently we've discovered that he has an intollerance to dairy. bummer, no cheese.
I've experienced lactose intollerance, but not for many years, I think I may have had leaky gut syndrome in the past.
While PG I've been eating what I feel like, trying to stay away from sugary stuff - but that's my regular burden. I'm not eating any fast food, fried stuff, things like - mostly oatmeal, brown rice, chicken, hardboiled eggs - trying to up the protein. But, I still crave chocolate chip cookies - so, on occasion, I try to get the kind where the 1st and 2nd ingredients ARE NOT sugars. It's not every day, maybe once a week. Over all, it's pretty healthy.
Except, that there's this question of dairy. I don't eat dairy every day, but I'll go on this binge for a week wanting dairy. And this last week I noticed that I was feeling bloated, my uterus was sore and I couldn't sleep, joint pains more than "usual" (what's usual? every day is different, so it's hard to tell if it's a new symptom or something I ate).
My ND tells me that the baby's remedy will come through and there will be symptoms that just aren't "me". And I think this dairy thing is it. I stopped to think a bit, and it's been getting pretty uncomfortable - and I've got 3 months to go w/a lot of projected growth, right! whew. So, I thought about what I'd eaten in the last 4-5 days - mostly dairy. MOSTLY. So, the next day, I cut out all dairy - cold turkey. And the bloating and tenderness went away. Whoa, I practically slept through the night! I was going to give it a few more days to be sure - but considering how many days it was going on, and how abruptly things changed after cutting it out, I think I've discovered the problem.
What I want to know is, does anyone have similar experiences? Either while pg, after the babe is born, the babe's experiences or just in general?
This is pretty cut and dry to me, and I don't think I've ever experienced such a change - could be the profoundly strange state of being pregnant. And I do think it's related to the babe - I just hope I haven't given him some sort of problem by ingesting dairy for him. Ah, the guilt of motherhood...
thanks for your inputs.
Lori
I want to get some thoughts on this, any experiences, etc.
DH has allergies galore. And recently we've discovered that he has an intollerance to dairy. bummer, no cheese.
I've experienced lactose intollerance, but not for many years, I think I may have had leaky gut syndrome in the past.
While PG I've been eating what I feel like, trying to stay away from sugary stuff - but that's my regular burden. I'm not eating any fast food, fried stuff, things like - mostly oatmeal, brown rice, chicken, hardboiled eggs - trying to up the protein. But, I still crave chocolate chip cookies - so, on occasion, I try to get the kind where the 1st and 2nd ingredients ARE NOT sugars. It's not every day, maybe once a week. Over all, it's pretty healthy.
Except, that there's this question of dairy. I don't eat dairy every day, but I'll go on this binge for a week wanting dairy. And this last week I noticed that I was feeling bloated, my uterus was sore and I couldn't sleep, joint pains more than "usual" (what's usual? every day is different, so it's hard to tell if it's a new symptom or something I ate).
My ND tells me that the baby's remedy will come through and there will be symptoms that just aren't "me". And I think this dairy thing is it. I stopped to think a bit, and it's been getting pretty uncomfortable - and I've got 3 months to go w/a lot of projected growth, right! whew. So, I thought about what I'd eaten in the last 4-5 days - mostly dairy. MOSTLY. So, the next day, I cut out all dairy - cold turkey. And the bloating and tenderness went away. Whoa, I practically slept through the night! I was going to give it a few more days to be sure - but considering how many days it was going on, and how abruptly things changed after cutting it out, I think I've discovered the problem.
What I want to know is, does anyone have similar experiences? Either while pg, after the babe is born, the babe's experiences or just in general?
This is pretty cut and dry to me, and I don't think I've ever experienced such a change - could be the profoundly strange state of being pregnant. And I do think it's related to the babe - I just hope I haven't given him some sort of problem by ingesting dairy for him. Ah, the guilt of motherhood...
thanks for your inputs.
Lori
: ) I assumed I had to have lots of dairy to have a healthy baby. Turns out I made ds's early months pure hell. He is very, very, very allergic to dairy. To the point he couldn't play with other babies much when he was little because contact with their spit up would make him throw up, break out in hives-everything. It was awful.
