TF and Newly PG

[guestmama9916]

I'm not new to TF, just newly pg with my 2nd child. With my first pg I ate SAD. I've been trying to eat TF for over a year now. I do raw grass fed cow's milk, Blue Ice, butter oil, coconut oil, kelp and free range meats/eggs when the budget allows. My question is about how tired I feel suddenly. I remember feeling this way during early pg with my first but I was hoping that eating better this time around would help. Could my diet be missing something? Even though I try to do TF, I haven't followed it religiously the past few months. Any ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated. :

[Taedareth]

Hehe, I think the 1st trimester tiredness can't be entirely done away with Plus, you have an older child to look after now! But as for energy-boosting foods... I think some people around here swear by liver. The raw kind, preferably. I haven't tried that, myself.

[quietserena]

Congrats!

And yeah, liver would probably be a pick me up. If you can do liver... I only ate cheese and fruit the first trimester and most of the second one...

But I think Taedareth is right, the tiredness isn't necessarily a deficiency as much as the pregnancy trying to tell you to rest a bit so that the new babe can settle, or something. I hear it passes quickly!

[newcastlemama]

I am one of the mamas who love liver (I do the NT chicken liver pate on crackers) for energy but I agree that I does not mean anything is wrong of you need to rest a little more when pregnant.

Congrats!
Jen

[elleystar]

I've worried the same thing on and off. I always naively assumed that since I eat TF and am so healthy, when I got pregnant the whole thing would be a breeze! Ha. Ha. Ha.
All I need to reassure myself is to eat something SAD. Then I get a glimpse of how I'd be feeling the entire 40 weeks if I wasn't TF! Blech. I'd be useless!

[RootBeerFloat]

I'm also on board with the idea that pregnancy just makes you tired some times! I am also a liver lover and have found that the days when I eat it for breakfast (I usually eat chopped beef liver on brown rice toast) tend to be my best days in terms of alertness and clear thinking. During my first trimester, those were the days when I was least queasy.

[guestmama9916]

Thanks for the reassurance ladies. I upped my intake of water these last 2 days and feel just fine now. I have yet to try liver. I'm a bit squeamish but perhaps I can get my partner who loves to cook to whip me up a batch of the NT pate. I bet I would like it as long as I didn't have to make it myself. I'm funny that way. I can hardly eat farm fresh free range eggs unless someone else prepares them for me. I wouldn't have lasted long in the good old days!