Powerful Pregnancy Nutrition
Pregnancy and nutrition don’t often go hand in hand- so often, healing protocols can go out the window in lieu of cravings and intense hunger. While I acknowledge this is an important, almost right-of-passage for pregnancy, I am here to offer support and a compilation of powerful recipes for pregnancy that will help you with cravings, low iron, gestational diabetes, excess weight gain, fatigue, and sickness! Phew, that’s a long list.
It is essential to eat enough and often so that you build up glucose stores during pregnancy- this will help you avoid fatigue. Regarding celery juice- drink as much as you can handle. This will help you with every hurdle you may face while pregnant. Anthony William, the Medical Medium, recommends 64 oz as a daily upper limit.
Remember to eat every 2 hours! This is so important to prevent blood sugar drops so that so you can build the strength of your adrenals. Your adrenals are the key to helping you through a successful birth. I even recommend eating every 90 minutes to stay within the 2 hour window and prevent blood sugar drops.
If you are inclined to try a cleanse you can do a 3:6:9 from Cleanse to Heal– day 9 can become a repeat of day 8 instead. Mono eating is also incredibly potent during this time as the simplicity of the diet allows your mind and body to focus on other essential tasks.
Please consult your doctor before you make changes to your diet or decide to go on a cleanse.
Potatoes for Pregnancy
Potatoes are an excellent food for pregnancy- I recommend them highly to pregnant mothers because they are healing, filling, comforting, and high in GOOD CARBS! While growing life inside you, remind yourself, as much as you need to, that healthy carbs will not make you gain excess weight! The added butter, sour cream, cheese, and oil are what is problematic with potatoes. On their own, pootatoes are incredibly low in fat, making it virtually impossible for your body to store them as fat!
Potatoes calm down our nervous system and help balance our blood sugar. They are also high in the antiviral lysine, which protects us from pathogens. This makes potatoes a great food while pregnant to avoid excess weight gain, sickness, and gestational diabetes.
Let’s talk about weight issues during pregnancy: don’t focus on weight, instead focus on nutrition. A lot of healthy carbs, hydration, greens, healthy fats (avo, coco, nuts and seeds, healthy animal protein), will make pregnancy easier for you. This is especially important if you have a chronic illness!
2. Muneeza’s Spicy Potato Pea Mash
3. Butternut Kabocha Squash Soup
4. Sweet Potato Ice Cream (fat-free version)
Avoid Gestational Diabetes: High Carb, Low Fat Recipes
The root cause of gestational diabetes is an underlying viral condition and a sluggish liver. Gestational diabetes occurs when you mix carbohydrates with BAD fats.
I am using the term “bad fats” because these are fats that are hard on the liver to digest. They include dairy, eggs, high-fat meats, and unhealthy oils. If you are going to eat some of these items, consume fruit at least half an hour beforehand.
Good fats to focus on include avocado, coconut, nuts, and seeds—just remember not to overdo them!
Craving a pizza? Check out these Medical Medium pizza recipes or my kabocha squash pizza.
5. Foods for fertility and lactation: A custom set of teas, juices, and smoothies I’ve created for fertility, lactation, and postpartum.
6. Homemade Gluten-Free Granola
Filler Foods > No Foods
Chickpeas, beans, lentils, grains (millet and oats), even organic brown rice- eat these so you are staying away from “no foods” or “troublemaker foods.” It is better to reach for these filler foods throughout your pregnancy to satisfy cravings than the no foods. The reason they are called filler foods is that they are not healing foods, but they are also not foods that will cause any harm.
No foods will expose you and your baby to a weakened immune system and increased pathogenic exposure: eggs, corn, gluten, dairy, soy, canola, tuna, pork, vinegar… etc.
For more information and a full list, check out Brain Saver by Anthony William.
9. Coconut Chickpea Curry with Cauliflower and Peas
Iron-Rich Pregnancy Nutrition Recipes
The root of iron deficiency is pathogenic in nature, as pathogens, like EBV can eat iron. Supplementing with iron-rich foods can help with low iron during pregnancy.
Iron-rich foods include: berries, leafy greens, pomegranates, spirulina, microgreens, sprouts, parsley, cilantro, and cherries. Also red raspberry leaf tea, nettle leaf tea and nettle leaf tincture are helpful in combating low iron.
13. Mineral-Rich Asparagus Dip
15. Mango Cherry Sleep Smoothie
Are you interested in learning more about pregnancy and postpartum nutrition? My 3-month program, Blossom, is kicking off on April 14th.
You will learn how to support yourself through building fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Doors are now officially open!
To your health, happiness, and peace,
Muneeza
