Hi,

While I am not breastfeeding, I did go back on a 100% raw food at the beginning of the month. Two weeks later I found out I am pregnant. The first thing I did was call a former coworker who is also a raw foodist. He does nutritional/health research for a living and he and his wife are planning on having kids so I knew he would be up on what I needed to do. One of the things he recommended to me since I would be detoxing having just started back on raw, was to take one of the products they have, called Opti-Cleanse. It is designed to clean out your system and specifically to bind to toxins and metals and get them out of your system. I worked for the company for a year, and it is where I learned about the rawfood lifestyle. I truly believe in the products they sell, so did not hesitate to use it nor do I hesitate in recommending them. If you are interested I will let you know their website and you can check it out for yourself.

Meanwhile, you are right. Raw food is much better than the SAD diet most of us have been raised on. I for one, will be happy not to live under the threat of cancer and disease for the rest of my life! I hope to keep my child from getting addicted to all the nutritionless food I grew up on!

Grace and peace,
Amy

Hi, I'd also like to hear if anyone has transitioned to raw during lactation. I currently eat 90% organic but only about 30% raw. I want to cleanse my colon the quickest and safest way and I believe the best wat to achieve that is to go 100% raw, but I'm worried about the toxins that may be released to my baby. Thanks in advance.

hi. here is how i did it, although i had a pretty good cooked diet before i started going raw.
start with one meal a day, ideally breakfast. change breakfast to a really mellow green smoothie, say one with fruit you like and romaine lettuce. have as much green smoothie as you want for breakfast. or just eat one kind of fruit until full, for breakfast.
(if you go for a lot of fruit and its not through a straw, brush your teeth afterwards.)
eat the other two meals as you normally would until you really feel adjusted to that one small change. monitor your baby. see that he is adjusted too.
then start doing a raw lunch or dinner too. you can choose which. it might be better to go "raw till dinner," for this transition, although i feel that in the long run lunch is the better big meal.
i would change lunch, when you are ready, to a hearty raw meal. think seeds more than nuts. there are so many hearty recipes.
then eat your usual dinner.

only when that is really adjusted would i go all raw.
this is a great time to get nutrition into your child. as well as to already show your child that you take good care of yourself. (this of course, is the best way to get him to do the same for himself. )also, you will be able to start him on raw when he eats solids. THAT is what will help him really clean up from any bad eating you had going on before, and even any mild detoxing that he goes through with you.
babies show things quick. if he shows detox symptoms, back off for a few days. but go to something still nourishing and organic. make sure all your desserts are raw. and relax, this is a treasure trove of pleasure not a restriction.

even when you are all raw, eat a lot of fats. you can still lose weight -- see alyssa cohen -- a nursing mother needs fats.
there is such a range of raw--you are not going to juice fast while you are nursing, but getting raw nutrition in you is going to make this time even more magical.

:)