Well I am 7 weeks pregnant with #3 and I hardly feel pregnant... Yesterday I ran 6 miles at my normal pace and just felt awesome. I workout a bit less, and less intense, because I don't have as much energy but overall still great. So yesterday was a better day for me; on low days I do a lighter workout.
A couple weeks ago I was pretty tired, but that passed quickly. I am back to my normal sleeping hours, and I am very active during the day with little down time!
I've hardly had any nausea at all, which I call a huge success story for my health lifestyle. In my second pregnancy (where this blog begins) I was eating a higher percentage raw, but more fats and some processed foods; and in that pregnancy I struggled with nausea day after day and spent most of my time resting on the couch (although it was markedly better than my first pregnancy on SAD). In the 80/10/10 world you hear this question a lot:
"Is it better to eat a low-fat cooked diet, or a high-fat raw diet?"
...and the raw gurus never answer. Well here is your answer folks, it is more important to eat low-fat and then you work on the percentage of cooked foods in your diet. That's what the Fruit Predominant Diet is all about, why to a raw foodist it is a more lenient diet, and yet it is more effective!
I consider this pregnancy a testiment to the Fruit Predominant Diet, as well as to being fit (since that is another difference between this pregnancy and previous ones).
Anyhow, I am due Jan. 7th and hoping for another UC. But I will say I had something magical about me in my last pregnancy that I don't feel this time--at least, yet. As time passes I will get more into visualizing and communicating with the baby, but so far I haven't done much to connect with this pregnancy. Actually to be honest I have been having a harder time accepting it and being excited about it. I think last time I wanted to be pregnant so bad, and I wanted that princess so bad, as well as the magic of my first UC, living so much by faith and everything. Now with baby #3 it's more ho-hum, more "business." I would love some comments on this, can you relate? Is that just what it's like to have kids past the first couple?
I need to find that magic again...
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Congratulations Annalise! That's really exciting.
I'm glad that this pregnancy has been easier on you.
I can't speak to how I've felt about subsequent children, because I don't have any, but I don't think you need to feel guilty about it. The magic will come!
Wow, Annalise, CONGRATULATIONS!!! I didn't know you were pregnant again until just now, and I am so excited - our due dates are about 5 weeks apart. =)
I hope you blog often about how you're feeling and how things are going; I get so inspired when I hear of other Moms who are eating raw and doing great! I am also hoping to continue running during pregnancy and do my workouts 3x a week so it'll be fun to do it with you, so to speak.
I found it QUITE interesting that I have been eating about 75% raw and VERY sick this pregnancy. Worse, I'd say, then the last 2 which were about 80-85% raw. Compared to how you're feeling, hmmm. Makes me wish I'd been more strict, but oh well - I seem to be coming out of the nausea now and it's never too late to start!
About that magic. I can relate to that one hundred percent. With baby #6, Jack, I had all this information in my head, and about 6 months worth of raw living under my belt. I ALSO had just started 80-10-10 and had been doing that for about 20 days when I found out I was pregnant. I continued to eat raw but was more lenient than 80-10-10 - I suppose you'd say, fruit predominant.
I ate really well, had an AWESOME pregnancy and definitely felt the magic! Oh, it was magical! Wonderful! And you know what I think it was? Honestly? I think it was the NOVELTY, the wonder and newness of it. Especially when compared to my last FIVE pregnancies which were all awful (but actually "normal" for SAD eaters). I also had an expectancy of what the pregnancy would be like while eating raw, and it exceeded my expectations, all except for the birth, really. It was so awesome! I remember blogging that I didn't even feel pregnant, that I would often forget and would see my belly and then remember, lol!
Then my next raw pregnancy, it was WAY more ho-hum...and it was harder, way harder, to stay raw. Because I already knew what a raw pregnancy was like, it wasn't mystical or magical or unknown. I just had to DO IT (eat raw) and it would be great. But for some reason the discipline just wasn't there. I always felt pregnant, I was sicker than with Jack...it was a struggle. The birth for that one was AMAZING though. Go figure.
Now I'm on my 3rd raw pregnancy and have been able to eat about 50% raw. STRUGGLING not to gain weight. It's like I know what to do, but I don't.want.to.do.it. Wah me. LOL I also feel very pregnant already which is lame. But anyway, just wanted to share those thoughts that I've had with you. I know you are much better at sticking to the raw diet than I am, but I think the same feelings are there. =)
PS I thought you'd enjoy this! It's a chart that shows in size of food (fruit/veggies) how big your baby is for any given week. One lady had the idea to pose for a pregnancy picture, holding the fruit - lemon, whatever. Cute idea!
http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-tools/articles/how-big-is-baby.aspx?MsdVisit=1
I felt that with #2 pregnancy - that I was missing the excitement. I guess the pregnancies after the first great one are like that. And for me, my first pregnancy was great & it was full of the excitement of discovering what pregnancy/birth are like.
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