Welcome to those who might be stopping by from Vegan MoFo! I’m blogging this month about all sorts of vegan stuff. Yeah, I do plan on sharing some recipes, but today it’s going to be a little more information-based, about what I’ve been doing during my vegan pregnancy.

I’ve pretty much stuck to my vegan ways through this pregnancy. I do a little googling here and there to find good vegan sources for various things (protein, calcium, etc) to make sure that I am getting enough for the baby.

For vitamins, I have been taking Country Life Maxi Prenatals. I buy them on Amazon.com. They don’t smell good, and you have to take six veggie caps per day (hey, at least they are normal sized, not the horse-pill variety!), but they have all the “good stuff” including vitamin B12. They even include healthy red raspberry leaf and ginger.

As I’m trying to work on having a natural birth experience, I have read into the Bradley method. The Brewer diet, suggested by the Bradley method to prevent preeclampsia, suggests very high levels of protein. While I’m not sure I’m getting that high protein, I am trying to make sure I eat plenty of good vegan protein sources:

• tofu
• soy milk
• almond or peanut butter
• gluten (also known as seitan)
• textured vegetable protein (TVP) and soy curls and other similar foods
• nuts and nut-based things (cheese, etc).
• Legumes/ beans (garbanzos, black beans, Great Northern beans, lentils, etc.)
• I’d eat more soy cheese and soy yogurt, but on our island that stuff doesn’t exist. Or if it does, I haven’t found it.

In addition, I use plenty of nutritional yeast flakes in different recipes which has lots of great nutrition and vitamins.

One web site that I have visited often for info is the Vegetarian Resource Group’s recommendations for vegan pregnancy. I find that it has good suggestions for things to add to my diet.

What about you? Have you done a vegan/ vegetarian pregnancy?