Powering Your Pregnancy With Plants

When it comes to having a plant-based pregnancy, you can be faced with a lot of misinformation and discouragement about your well-intended choices. Trying to find accurate advice often ends up with you stuck in a Google rabbit hole, swamped by conflicting ideas.

Then comes the self-doubt about whether it’s healthy or even possible to stay vegetarian or vegan while pregnant, leaving you to consider sacrificing your beliefs and values for a healthy pregnancy.

In this podcast episode, Sarah is joined by Crysta Pollitt MS, RDN, who helps us to feel confident about plant-based pregnancy choices during pregnancy and gives us the guidance we need to ensure we get all the important nutrients needed to grow a healthy baby.

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Topics include:

• Supplementation
• Important nutrients and vitamins during pregnancy
• How to build a healthy plate
• Nutritious breakfast ideas
• Plant-based protein powders
• Soy
• Tasty plant-based snack ideas

Show Notes

3:23 - “It’s completely possible to have a healthy pregnancy without eating animal protein.”

4:53 - “With plant-based pregnancy, I 100% recommend a prenatal vitamin.”

5:16 - “The first thing I look at with supplementation for plant-based pregnancy is choline, Omega-3s and B12.”

9:18 - “We have to make sure there’s protein with each meal.”

20:42 - “One of the biggest myths about plant-based pregnancy or just plant-based eating is that soy is bad for you.”

25:48 - “In pregnancy, really pay attention to the quality of the food and to the characteristics of the food that you are craving.”

26:27 - “We’re not afraid of carbs in the plant-based pregnancy world. We’re just so focused on protein.”

29:27 - “Focus on the time during your pregnancy to really nourish yourself.”