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<blockquote data-quote="Resurgam" data-source="post: 1819193" data-attributes="member: 355878"><p>If you are concerned about the advisability of low carb foods, I went through my first pregnancy with no cab restrictions, but I only ate foods which were not high carb - the no bread pasta rice potatoes etc rule. </p><p>My weight gain was minimal and the baby was a strapping 9 lb 3 oz boy who is now well over 6 ft tall - but I must warn you that he grew like a weed and did not sleep well at all - wanted to be fed or to play all the time. </p><p>It was long before I was diagnosed but I had always had to eat low carb to control my weight, so I had over a decade of eating low carb behind me before I fell pregnant. I recovered from the birth amazingly fast too - according to the nurses and midwives I saw.</p><p>With my second pregnancy I was just entering the third trimester when I mentioned low carb to the doctor and how well I felt, and he threatened to send me to hospital and have me 'fed properly' and in two weeks eating the diet he prescribed I was seriously ill with pre eclampsia. Luckily there was no bed available, so I got a reprieve over the weekend and when I went back on the Monday (after abandoning the diet) I was very much improved -probably all the trotting up and down to the toilet had helped, and it was such a relief to be eating all the fresh vegetables again - and fruits too, but at a much lower level of carbs than the 'healthy' diet as prescribed.</p><p>If you have been eating dense carb foods you might negotiate a bit of time to tr eliminating the highest of them and seeing if your morning levels fall. I found that high carb foods cause a spike which had a long effect on all my readings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Resurgam, post: 1819193, member: 355878"] If you are concerned about the advisability of low carb foods, I went through my first pregnancy with no cab restrictions, but I only ate foods which were not high carb - the no bread pasta rice potatoes etc rule. My weight gain was minimal and the baby was a strapping 9 lb 3 oz boy who is now well over 6 ft tall - but I must warn you that he grew like a weed and did not sleep well at all - wanted to be fed or to play all the time. It was long before I was diagnosed but I had always had to eat low carb to control my weight, so I had over a decade of eating low carb behind me before I fell pregnant. I recovered from the birth amazingly fast too - according to the nurses and midwives I saw. With my second pregnancy I was just entering the third trimester when I mentioned low carb to the doctor and how well I felt, and he threatened to send me to hospital and have me 'fed properly' and in two weeks eating the diet he prescribed I was seriously ill with pre eclampsia. Luckily there was no bed available, so I got a reprieve over the weekend and when I went back on the Monday (after abandoning the diet) I was very much improved -probably all the trotting up and down to the toilet had helped, and it was such a relief to be eating all the fresh vegetables again - and fruits too, but at a much lower level of carbs than the 'healthy' diet as prescribed. If you have been eating dense carb foods you might negotiate a bit of time to tr eliminating the highest of them and seeing if your morning levels fall. I found that high carb foods cause a spike which had a long effect on all my readings. [/QUOTE]
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