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Written by Jill Ettinger
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Welcome to the first installment of the series "Vegan, 40, and Pregnant" chronicling the challenges of a late maternal age pregnancy while also adhering to a strict vegan diet.
Part One: You're Vegan? But Where Do You Get Your Protein?
Each week, BabyCenter.com sends me an email telling me how big my unborn baby is. She was once the size of a bean. Then a lemon. An apple. A bell pepper. Now, at 19 weeks, she's roughly the size of an "heirloom tomato." I like that they compare my daughter to fruits and vegetables—the main part of our diet. (I like it even more that they also made the important distinction of noting the much more flavorful heirloom tomato.) But I don't love the recent list they put out "The ten best foods for pregnancy." The list is filled with foods I haven't touched in years: fish, eggs, meat and dairy. It seems that no matter how many numerous successful vegan and vegetarian births occur (just think about how many babies are born in India each year to vegetarians!), this country still suffers from a protein myth.
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Read more... [Vegan, 40, and Pregnant, Part One: You're Vegan? But Where Do You Get Your Protein?]
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