6 Weeks Pregnant Need Help

[Jennirube]

Ok I am 6 weeks pregnant and pregnancy is going well so far but my upper abdomen is so bloated and has been for months. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on what to do. First I was told I was at mild to moderate risk for celiac thru genetic testing. I have had all other blood work come back negative. However I do have vit b12 deficiency and was told that is probably where my food sensitivity comes in. I am not sure what kind of symptoms everyone else has but I have horrible bloating, cramping stomach aches, fullness after a few bites sometimes I feel if I just threw up I would feel better. I have had problems now for months since I went back on gluten after doing the hcg diet and gluten free for a short time. So I know it is the food causing problems. I was wondering if anyone here takes any probiotics for bloating and where to start doing gluten free again. There are three people in my house. My son who is 8 I know would also benifit from the gluten free diet since he has ADHD. My boyfriend says he would do some of it if need be but he doesn't think it is necessary. What should I do.

Jennifer

[mommida]

Go gluten free. Don't try and get a lot of specialty gluten free foods. They are realy pricey and your taste buds should readjust in about 4 months gluten free. The extra fruit and veggies should help during pregnancy. To go through testing right now, you would have to consume gluten and have enough damage to show up in your tests. You can safely eat a well balanced gluten free diet with out harming your baby.

[SGWhiskers]

I'll second what Mamamida said. Eat lots of meat, veggies, fruit, eggs, rice chex, rice and potatoes, and maybe switch to soy milk. I love Silk brands DHA with the purple banner under the SILK label. It tastes fresher and is good for brain development. Take your multivitamins (make sure they are gluten free). Bellybar chewables are gluten free and helped with my nausea triggered from the old multivitamins I was taking.

Stay healthy and strict and consider avoiding restraunt and friend cooked foods while you are pregnant to reduce cross contamination. Congratulations on the good news!

[Alison R]

Congratulations!

I agree with what others have written with one exception. If you are prone to allergies, I wouldn't stick with SILK, soy is too much of an allergen. If you want to use it that's great, just rotate it with almond milk and even So Delicious coconut milk beverage, etc. Don't keep them all, just buy a different product when you run out.

Allergies (for you or your growing baby) are less likely to be created if you don't overload one product.

[missy'smom]

When I went gluten-free, I pretty much switched snacks over to gluten-free ones that my son and I shared. He was not gluten-free at the time. We just got away from cookies, crackers and the like. Switched to lots of fruit, puddings jello, fruit leathers, cheese, popcorn and such. I bought gluten-free cookies and such once in a while, but not as a daily snack. I just stopped buying gluteny snacks and DH is not a snacker so that helped too. At least that will cut down on cross-contamination for you and maybe be a helpful step on the journey for your son.

My son(now 12) had an ADHD DX. You can see my signature for more details. We did not see an huge improvement with gluten-free alone, some do, although we do believe that being gluten-free had made a contribution. For us, finding out his additional food allergies and managing them as well as his heavy environmental load has made the biggest difference. We have some documented proof of this change. The school monitored his progress and charted it month by month last year, because he has an IEP. Unknown to them, we were allergy tested and soon after that started agressively managing what turned up. When I was presented with the chart at the IEP meeting this year, You could see on the graph where his performance shot up one month after the allergy testing/management and stayed up the rest of the year.

I encourage you to get some testing for your son and see if you can't uncover a piece of the puzzle for him.