Being Gluten Free and Pregnancy Symptoms

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Being Gluten Free and Pregnancy Symptoms

by Katherine
(Auckland)

Hi all.

I have been gf for six months now and am very strict about it. Before I was diagnosed I never had any irritable bowel symptoms...but just this week have experienced 'issues' - even though have eaten nothing different or unusual.

I am also dairy free. I am also trying to conceive...wondering if that has anything to do with it...has anyone else had a similar experience with early pregnancy signs?

Katherine

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Being Gluten Free and Pregnancy Symptoms

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Jul 09, 2008
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Pregnancy and GF/DF
by: Anita

I had bad bloating and gas production during early and late pregnancy despite being dairy and gluten free. It is a standard "side effeect" of being pregnant unfortunately. It was always worse if I didn't eat regularly. I found in the first 3 months that I needed to eat something at a minimum of every two hours during the day. This helped by keeping my blood sugar level fairly stable. When I didn't eat for 4 - 5 hours I would start feeling gut pains, perhaps some bloating and slightly nauseous - I would then test my blood sugar and found it was lower than usual so that's how I know that keeping your food intake to regular short intervals is the key to keeping things in working order! Your body needs to fuel to build the baby and has lots of hormones diving around so it's understandable that it puts the rest of your system under pressure. Also try to eat no just carbs, but some protein with every meal/snack as this helps reduce bloating.

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