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Has anyone tried a Low Carb or Ketogenic diet while pregnant?
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<blockquote data-quote="Smallbrit" data-source="post: 2007928" data-attributes="member: 456748"><p>I can only really answer the 'did your pregnancy turn out fine' question, with: yes. I ate really low carb for my second baby and he had a happy full term natural birth at 38 weeks.</p><p></p><p> I was in the US then. My first baby was under OB care and was premature, because I'd been diagnosed with (raging!) GD too late at 28 weeks and I hadn't had time to figure out how to control blood sugars (and I was given excellent 'eat to your meter' by reducing carbs and test before/after meals advice by a nutritionist at 29 weeks!) before my daughter had other ideas and decided to join the world at 31 weeks.</p><p></p><p>So, yes, second pregnancy, I went with midwife care only because I no longer trusted OB plans. I did follow the previous nutritionist's advice though, and I went very low carb (less than 20g a day), because that's what I had to do to 'eat to the meter' and it all turned out fine. I was on weekly midwife visits from 28 weeks though, given my history... and by week 36 everyone had got bored of everything being normal and it turned into a 'you can come out now, baby' game.</p><p></p><p>In theory, I suppose the nutritionist recommended some carbs, as her initial plan for me was to 'start' with a max of 30g lunch/dinner, 15g breakfast and then reduce carbs per meal if the rise in blood sugars was too much. She never told me how far to reduce carbs, though....!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Smallbrit, post: 2007928, member: 456748"] I can only really answer the 'did your pregnancy turn out fine' question, with: yes. I ate really low carb for my second baby and he had a happy full term natural birth at 38 weeks. I was in the US then. My first baby was under OB care and was premature, because I'd been diagnosed with (raging!) GD too late at 28 weeks and I hadn't had time to figure out how to control blood sugars (and I was given excellent 'eat to your meter' by reducing carbs and test before/after meals advice by a nutritionist at 29 weeks!) before my daughter had other ideas and decided to join the world at 31 weeks. So, yes, second pregnancy, I went with midwife care only because I no longer trusted OB plans. I did follow the previous nutritionist's advice though, and I went very low carb (less than 20g a day), because that's what I had to do to 'eat to the meter' and it all turned out fine. I was on weekly midwife visits from 28 weeks though, given my history... and by week 36 everyone had got bored of everything being normal and it turned into a 'you can come out now, baby' game. In theory, I suppose the nutritionist recommended some carbs, as her initial plan for me was to 'start' with a max of 30g lunch/dinner, 15g breakfast and then reduce carbs per meal if the rise in blood sugars was too much. She never told me how far to reduce carbs, though....! [/QUOTE]
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