Vegetarians having children?!
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Answers: Is it true that because of lack of iron there is a chance I wont be able to have kids? I am worried. I cant help being a vegetarian, Its a genetic problem that I have a highly sensitive smell. I cant eat anything that smells awful to me or I throw up.
No rude answers.
Please help.
A lack of iron can make you anaemic - it won;t stop you getting pregnant but a baby draws its nutrients fro the mother during opregnancy so yo can be left very low in iron.
Anaemia causes fainting, and dizziness and others i can;t think of at present.
See your doctor for an blood test for iron levels - there are plenty of iron supplement tablets you can take to keep you levels up.
Make sure you do this before you get pregnant - infact you should do it yearly if you are a strict vegetarian.
Im not very educated in this part,
but if your a healthy vegetarian and getting everything you need, then I dont see why you would have a lower chance of being pregnant.
*shrugs*
=)
There are 1000s of vegan and vegetarian mothers out there. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a vegan or vegetarian diet providing that its well balanced. www.babycenter.com.au this website should help and so should this one. Good luck.
www.vegsoc.org/info/preg.html - 17k
www.babycenter.com
www.amazon.com/Your-Vegetarian-Pregnan...
I know plenty of vegetarians with multiple children. Go take a blood test at your next annual physical, and if an iron deficiency shows up, then start taking supplements. But most vegetarians get enough iron.
I know a woman who has three healthy kids and is a vegetarian, durring her second pregnancy she craved hamburgers due to lack of iorn so she ate a few (the only ones she has had since she was like 12)...sometimes cravings arent just crazy they tell you what you need.
As my old teacher use to write after a particularly lame essay: Horse hooey!! Simply is not true. Pregnant women (and any person for that matter) requirer nutrients regardless of source. And if that happens to be exclusively plant foods, then so be it. If and when you get preggy, your OB should be able to help you with the proper diet and nutrition that your body will require to have a successful pregnancy and a healthy baby.
If that were true, then vegetarians would have died out years ago, we wouldn't have 7th Day Adventists, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc and India's population would be around 650,000,000 only instead of 1 billion.