I'm Pregnant!

[Sharon in Colorado]

Congratulations Sam. That is WONDERFUL!

All the best to you and many blessings for a healthy happy pregnancy.

I've heard so many things about morning sickness! I hope you don't get it. I had it with all three, the worst with my last one. I've read that morning sickness can be caused by dehydration and detox. I've also read on Jenny Silliman's site about vitamin C helping emmensly with labor & delivery.

I know you can do it the way you want to. There are no better nutrients for your body than what you can get through fresh, whole natural uncooked food.

[Punky]

I'm so excited for you Sam! Congrats!
I wish I knew about raw when I was pregnant with my boys.
What a lucky baby ;)
I am very interested in raw pregnancies and will be following
your journey. Best of wishes for a smooth pregnancy :)

[Jay]

Sam that's excellent news!

I wish you the best health throughout your pregnancy!

Keep us updated :)

Joke

[SamL]

Thank you everyone for sharing in my happy news, I appreciate your response

So far the only symptoms have been dreams, my most recent one, I was trying to make friends with someone and offered her a cabbage leaf with a white pepper (no such thing! weird) sitting on top. She put a straw in hers and started drinking juice from the bottom, I was fascinated there was evenjuice in it, she started peeling it open and all this juice poured out from the bottom of it. too weird lol...

[catherinethegreat]

Congratulations!!!!!! How exciting!!!!! I'll light a candle for you and your baby - for heal and happiness!

love
Catherine

[SamL]

:) thank you Catherine

[sweetgoddess]

~*~*~*CONGRATULATIONS SAM*~*~*
\o/ \o/ \o/
Many blessings of health to you and your baby~and your family. Keep record of your journey-it appears to me the world needs a raw pregnancy book!
Warmest, most lovingest wishes~
Carmel :)

[SimplyRawesome]

Ohhhh Sam!!! That's WONDERFUL!!! See.... I guess hubby was right - he said he "had a feeling"! Very intuitive man you've got there!!

I am so happy for you and your family. A rawbaby!! That's just simply RAWESOME!!!

I pray your are blessed with a perfect pregnancy and happy, healthy baby. ;)

[sweetgoddess]

Hey Sam~ ran across this article and thought it could be ofinterest to you.

PREGNANCY AND RAW FOOD BABIES
IS IT SAFE TO CONTINUE TO EAT RAW FOOD IF I'M PREGNANT? AND, HOW DO I RAISE MY BABY ON RAW AND/OR VEGAN FOOD?
I think that whatever is good for adults is good for a child. You may find a lot of helpful information about raw babies and raw pregnancy at the e-magazine, www.vegetarianbaby.com

Unfortunately I have never been pregnant on raw diet. I know that there are several books coming soon written by mothers who have been pregnant on a raw food diet. I will have them on my website as soon as they are in print. You may also get detailed information about raw babies from Jinjee, mother of 4 raw babies at www.thegardendiet.com

The following doctors have written articles on Vegan Babies:
Michael Klaper MD
Dean Ornish MD
McDougall MD
These articles have been published by EarthSave Magazine.
You can find them online: www.earthsave.org and www.vegsource.org Here are some other helpful websites:
peacefulsimplicity@yahoo.com. www.unassistedchildbirth.com. You may,also, want to contact Hygeia Halfmoon or Laura Shanley.
Another good source is a magazine from the United Kingdom, "Get Fresh". You may look at it at www.fresh-network.com. There was an article about pregnancy in a recent issue of this magazine; it was by Karen Knowler.

Article by Victoria Boutenko

[Mishka]

Sam~
A BABY!!!!!
awww...how sweet! You even announced it on valentines day! I haven't been on line the last few days, just found out today. So YAY !!!! for you and your family!!! I am thrilled for you . I think sweet goddess is onto something...maybe you should consider documenting everything. You already have a start with your journalling here. We'll be praying that everything goes smoothly! God bless you and your little one!
Friends,
Michelle

[SamL]

Victoria, thank you for your encouragement, I only just remembered that hubby was all doting and suspicious a week or two before I knew.

Carmel, you are such a rare gem, thank you so much for taking the time and coming up with so much information for me to browse. You put a big smile on my face this morning. I can't wait to get started. I've read through the garden diet books, I loved Jinjee's journey, I'm really anxious to read more.

Thank you so much Michelle, it's good to see you around again. I think you and Carmel might be right, I'll have to try to write about this experience, even if it turns out not good enough, but great for a keepsake journal.

I've ordered the book Joopie suggested "Raw pregnancy and raising Raw kids"

You've all been so wonderfully helpful encouraging and supportive
Thanks for sharing in my excitement. :)

[Sweet lips]

I am so happy for you and blessed that you shared this with us, and especially me. I am praying for you and this wonderful gift that God has put forth to you and Mr. Sam. You have taken care of your temple and you have sent so much love and peace, I know this pregrancy will be wonderful!!!

Many blessings to you

[Helen Of Tennessee]

Congratulations SamL

Here are a couple of boards, one active, one not-so-active, but you might hook up with some other pregnant women, or those who were recently pregnant and raw:

http://www.aimoo.com/forum/freeboard.cfm?id=584090

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfoodbabies/


Here are some websites that may be of interest to you:

http://www.geocities.com/health-nut....ily-index.html

http://www.vegetarianbaby.com/raw.shtml

http://chrysalisyog.homestead.com/children.html


This one does have some good info in there. You just have to pick around in it to find info pertaining to eating all raw:

http://www.radiantmother.com/Nutriti...ers&Babies.htm

<>< Helen of Tennessee

[SamL]

I feel so blessed, thank you for your thoughts Sweet Lips Brian and Myself are over the moon, our kids are too.

Thank you so much Helen for taking the time to find all these resources, I'm so lucky to have this kind of support, there's been so much more information than I ever dreamed.

I'm going to go check these sites out now...

Peace...

[Ariella]

congratulations :) I hope all goes well for you. I am currently also 20 to 25 weeks pregnant with baby 2. I am high raw and have not really had a lot of symptoms, there was a little bit of mild nausea at teh beginning but overall I have had a lot of energy - I have 4 friends who are also pregnant and they wonder how I can have energy for everything that I do! Anyway, so far so good. With my first son I was around 80 to 85% raw and had a totally healthy and big baby boy with a labor that only lasted 6 hours total. So it was really good.

I have not come across a lot of sources for raw pregnancy either. I hope you will share if you find anything.

I journal at www.eco-centric.it if you want to see what I have been eating. You have to click on the UK flag and then on blog and then you will find us. Anyway, I have been higher raw with this pregnancy than with the first and have been feeling awesome.

Ariella



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