No Raw mommies???

[rawandama]

No one ever posts on the Raising Raw Kids board. Is there any mommies out there or mommies-to-be who I can talk to???

[Rawmommie]

Well, I'm a rawmommie...hence the name.

My children are not raw, but eat a lot of raw foods, so I don't tend to post about them very often. I homeschool my kids, so I'm home with them all day, every day and I usually use my computer time to GET AWAY. LOL! ;)

[Boysenberry]

I am a raw Mommy of six and a half! I am due with number seven in September. Three of my six embrace raw, the other three will try stuff occasionally, although one really would rather eat cereal all day, if I let her.

I feel silly sometimes posting about them. They are wonderful and funny about raw. If the food processor is going, I have one that runs in the kitchen, pushes a chair up to the counter, climbs up and starts stamping his feet until he can have a taste of whatever it is. He is getting that way about the dehydrator as well.

One goes along for the ride, If I am eating oranges for lunch, she is more than happy to do it too. If Dad is making eggs and toast, she will do that as well. My teenage daughter made coconut macaroons and ate them all without putting them into the dehydrator!

so, I guess I have funny stories like that... I am trying to slowly introduce raw to them. They are all very keenly aware that I eat different. They also know that they want me to stay raw. Mommy is happier and more fun raw, they have not translated that to themselves yet. :)

Would love to share more with you....

[ella]

Hey Sami!
I'm not a raw mom, but plan to be one day! I thought I'd pass this on to you:

(From Jinjee : The Daily Raw Inspiration Newsletter)

Tonight (Wednesday April 12th) evening at 6:00 PM I am going to be giving a teleseminar with Kimberly Mac (“The Naked Vegan”) about “Your Healthiest Pregnancy”. We will be talking about preparing for pregnancy with the raw vegan diet and exercise, the health benefits of pregnancy, how to avoid morning sickness, avoiding stretch marks, safely exercising to stay in great shape throughout your pregnancy, making sure your baby receives sufficient nourishment in the womb, how to get all your nutritional requirements with a raw vegan diet during pregnancy, preparing for enjoying a blissful birthing experience, mental and emotional preparation for childbirth, releasing outdated concepts associated with birthing, exercises you can safely do the day after giving birth, eating a raw vegan diet while nursing, avoiding common nursing problems, and how to have the healthiest pregnancy for you and your baby! You can sign up at:

http://kimberlymac.com/Events


To your health,
Jinjee
http://www.thegardendiet.com

[lane]

I'm a proud "raw mama" of one incredible 19 month old little girl- who eats mostly raw foods herself-- exception is when we visit her grandma who is ceaseless in asking if she can try this and that. It's always interesting to notice changes in her bowel movements (as she is so young and her system works so well) after she has eaten cooked food.
-lane

[aledwards]

Hi!
I'm a raw mommy.. but my son (3 years old), isn't totally raw. He eats lots of fruits, and loves fresh vegi juices. He eats a lot of grains though too. oh- he LOVES raw carob pudding made with the avacados. Man do we buy a lot of avacados! :) My husband & I are in the process of expanding our family too... we're in the midst of an adoption. We're adopting a little girl from India... we think she's in Pune. She'll be almost 2 by the time we are able to travel & get her, so it will be interesting to see what kind of diet she's used to! I've never even looked at the "raising raw kids" board.. but I will right now!

[IamLoved]

Hello everyone!!

Amanda -
How exciting for you to be adopting a little girl from India! You must be so happy!!


I am a raw mommy. I have 5 children. 1 is all raw, our baby girl who is 16 months old. She has been all raw since I started eating raw about a year ago. She has had cooked food on occasion when someone else gave it to her and she reacts very badly with it. She will get a runny nose almost immediately after eating something cooked. So now I tell people that she is sensitive to foods and reacts badly to sugar and flour ect and that way they don't push about what she eats (or rather about what she doesn't eat). People are amazed when I break out an avacado and feed it to her straight out of the shell. They can't believe that this little tiny sweetheart gobbles down avacadoes like candy!! She also like to eat marinated mushrooms, the tangier the better. She is funny!
My other four children and my husband are not raw, but love my raw creations. My children love fruit and green smoothies. They also like veggies with dip.
I also homeschool my children and use this board to get "away" every now and then and re-connect with the raw world out there. I would like to get my other family members all raw. I am doing it a little at a time.

[rawandama]

Hey all~ I'm so glad to hear that there are others out there! It seems like when I post on this board no one ever gets back to me or has much to say that's helpful. I'm trying to do as much raw as I can (95%) with this pregnancy to see if it really makes a difference in my labor.
I don't know if anyone else ever tried going raw during pregnancy. I'm a little freaked because I'm losing weight and my mom keeps telling me that my baby is eating my toxins. On the next breath she tells me that she's not worried about this baby at all (she's also my midwife for the second time).
So, no one else seems to have their kids on 100% raw. My son is almost 15 months old and he's not either, but my husband would like him to be. He's kind of small already, probably in the fiftieth percentile. I'm not sure I could handle having him lose weight!! He loves his eggs and his goat's milk. At this point I am just slowly transitioning.
To Ella: I want to go to that event but my husband has classes online tonight!! Thank you for showing that to me. I got all excited and was going to sign up, but then I realized that it's wednesday and Clint will be on the computer all evening. *sighs*
to Aledwards~ Let me know how the adoption process goes. My husband and I are seriously considering adopting once we are better off financially. Probably from the united states, though...still, I'm curious!
BOYSENBERRY~ LOL!!! How old is your stomper??

[IamLoved]

Hi

Actually I do have one who is 100% raw. I don't feed her anything cooked. She is also very tiny for her age. She is 16 months old and weighs 17 pounds, but she is very proportioned and looks so healthy. She never gets sick unless someone slips her something she shouldn't have (like a cracker). But I don't ever feed her anything cooked. Sometimes it would be easier because all her siblings are eating cooked, but her little system is so pure that I don't want to mess that up. So she is 100%, and hopefully someday the others will be too.
:)

[faith4u]

I am a raw mommy too. I have four cihldren. None of them are all raw but they are eating more and more raw foods and noticing a difference in how they feel when they do.

I went all raw at the beginning of my third trimester with my fourth child. I did it because I normally get migraines at least weekly during the last trimester. Going raw helped that a lot. I only had two the whole time.

I didn't detox at all during my pregnancy. I did lose some weight then but that is normal for me at the end of my pregnancy. I also had tons of energy that whole time instead of being extremely fatigued like everyone says you should be. It was really nice.

I don't know what to do with the baby when he starts food. I really would like for him to eat all raw but I don't know if my husband will go for it. Eventually it would get very hard because his brother and sisters would be eating cooked food in front of him.

My two year old really loves raw foods and will willingly eat them before other foods. It is funny. She is a raw foodist at heart.

[twinyoga]

I'm a raw Mommy. My twins are 2 years old and very healthy. They eat lots of raw and if it's not raw, it's a whole food. The only time it's not whole foods is if they are somewhere that I can not keep an eye on them (which doesn't happen much).

My son is 36 lbs! But doesn't have an ounce of extra fat, he has a beautiful masculine body. My daughter is 27 lbs. with the tiniest waist.

I'm so proud of them. Especially when they choose a cucumber or apple for a meal!

I have a more recent photo under my journal.

[rawandama]

Oh crum. I just had a whole message wrote out and my son came up, pounded the keyboard, and erased it all!!!!!!!!! ERRR!
I'll write more later. Basically, I just had an ultrasound and baby's healthy, but I came too close to passing out and it took me a long time to recover. I was so weak and faint after the us that my mom gave me fish. I wasn't hungry as I'd just had cashews and dried mango before I went, but it seemed to help. Faith4U did you have any problems when you went raw in your pregnancy???
I'll write more later all.
Luvs and hugz

[aledwards]

to Aledwards~ Let me know how the adoption process goes. My husband and I are seriously considering adopting once we are better off financially. Probably from the united states, though...still, I'm curious!

I will let you know! We're just finishing up our home study (social worker checking us out & lots of background & medical checks)... and once we're approved, all our info will be sent to India. It's an amazing process. You just have to sit back & feel confident that it will take just as long as it's supposed to... otherwise, you could drive yourself nuts with the waiting! Yeah...we're not really financially good for this either! ha! The name of the game is: Home Equity Loan. But, we just know that our daughter is there, and so the money doesn't matter as much. I'm here if you have any questions at all! -and I'm bound to post a picture of her when we get one! :)

[aledwards]

Amanda -
How exciting for you to be adopting a little girl from India! You must be so happy!!

Thank you! I think I'm finally letting myself get excited! Sometimes, it feels like if I let myself get too excited I'll just go nuts with the waiting! :) I have to add that I'm looking forward to seeing some new fruits while in India. I'm hoping for some new & interesting raw moments. :)

[Boysenberry]

Thanks for the message from Jingee and Naked lady... LOL cant remember her exact name right now! I would really like to get in on that. It sounds terrific. Unfortunately the timing is wrong for me at this time.

I saw a doc today, looks like I am 17 weeks along and having a GIRL!!