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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out Wisdom's website.  They ask that you stick to their diet and be in "excellent" health.  There are a ton of threads about it in this forum.  Their goal is for you to stay low risk and they believe their diet will reduce the likelihood of GD and other complications.  [/quote]

Yes, but they are also humane about the first trimester. In a past thread a poster mentioned that Whitney said to try Coke as well as [b]turkey on white bread[/b] to help with nausea. Another midwife told me that I should eat whatever I could get down when suffering from nausea and morning sickness. [/quote]

I cannot imagine anything grosser than that if you are nauseated.  And high in salt.  Ugh.  And with Coke?  I don't understand how a practice that is so extreme can then go to the other extreme for the first tri.  Bizarre.[/quote]

I think I was the person who posted this--the turkey on white bread with a Coke--and yes, it was Whitney who said it.  Her theory was that the bread had enough carbs to settle my stomach plus some bland protein that would keep it settled for a little while.  Plus Coke syrup has always been used as an anti-nausea treatment; it's basically the same as Emetrol, which you can buy OTC at any pharmacy. And while it might not sound good to you, it may to someone else (and I ate turkey on toast a lot during my first trimester and drank a lot of Coke, too).

Whitney did emphasize that I *would* follow their diet once I was feeling better (and I did, sort of), but they are not in the business of making pregnant women utterly miserable.  They completely understand first-trimester and longer nausea and how difficult it can be sometimes to keep anything down.[/quote]

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