#56 SuperFeast Rewind: Pregnancy Health with Tahnee McCrossin

<p>Part 2 to the epic first pregnancy preparation episode. If you haven't listened yet to Part 1, check it out here. This mammoth episode sees Mason and Tahnee diving deep into the practices, philosophy, diet and herbalism that went into creating the year in which Tahnee was childbearing little Aiya. This podcast was recorded during the first week of bubba's life, so the sharing experience of the birth is fresh; something Tahnee was wishing to be able to infuse into this intimate sharing of how she chose to approach nourishing her body during pregnancy. We have received such amazing feedback from these two episodes and with such amazing sharings, we had to revisit them!</p> <p><br /> Here’s what Mason and Tahnee dive into (with much more extensive notes shared below):</p> <ul> <li>Pregnancy and home birth plans</li> <li>How did Tahnee know?</li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline;"> <ul> <li>We found out at four weeks, basically I was very aware that something was different in my body!! We’d both felt the baby come in November, and exactly three months later we were pregnant, and I’ve heard that’s common</li> </ul> </li> <li>Pregnancy diet</li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline;"> <ul> <li>we don’t follow a dietary plan, more intuitive</li> <li>generally vegetarian, though we do include meat in our diet, probably once or twice a week: fish, buffalo, occasionally organic chicken and beef, other wild meats (rabbit, goat, boar), broths/stocks</li> <li>more mindful of eating a variety of foods and definitely eat more quantity, smaller meals, regularly</li> <li>organic and local as much as possible - farmers market and Santos/Source keep us fed</li> <li>fridge/freezer is stocked</li> <li>wild foods, high mineral content</li> <li>fermented foods</li> </ul> </li> <li>Best supplements during pregnancy</li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline;"> <ul> <li>I didn’t take a lot of vitamins or anything like that, apart from lipsomal vitamin C</li> <li>lots of herbs, mostly tonics, plus raspberry l