j2mugs
Member
Hi all,
After nearly 6 years of peating my wife is pregnant! She struggled since her teens with having consistent cycles and now at 37 she has been carrying the baby for 10 weeks. We are so grateful for the healing that has taken place due in part to the advice of this forum - so thank you!
She did become pregnant in 2017, but it was shortly after her periods started to regulate (only three consecutive periods). She lost the baby at 8 weeks. We had a bad experience with her OB/GYN freaking out becuase her TSH was 0. She blammed the miscarriage on her "hypO-thyroidism" (shaking my head as I write it out). So we decided to pursue a home birth this time and began interviewing midwives. Our best referral just turned us down because I told her kindly up front we probably wouldn't follow any of her nutritional advice and explained how changing our diet made it even possible to get pregnant. We definitely weren't going to change midstream. Once she "researched" Ray Peat she said it was too crazy and she couldn't go along with it. So she dumped us.
Now we're struggling to figure out what to do. We want to be honest with the midwife up front because we don't want the relationship to become adversarial along the way. But at the same time it's nearly impossible to try to explain eclampsia or gestational diabetes in differen terms.
I'm sure someone else has come up against this. Any advice on how to select a midwife while walking this road? Trying to get any form of "traditional medical care" is such a pain, the dogma is real.
Thanks in advance!
After nearly 6 years of peating my wife is pregnant! She struggled since her teens with having consistent cycles and now at 37 she has been carrying the baby for 10 weeks. We are so grateful for the healing that has taken place due in part to the advice of this forum - so thank you!
She did become pregnant in 2017, but it was shortly after her periods started to regulate (only three consecutive periods). She lost the baby at 8 weeks. We had a bad experience with her OB/GYN freaking out becuase her TSH was 0. She blammed the miscarriage on her "hypO-thyroidism" (shaking my head as I write it out). So we decided to pursue a home birth this time and began interviewing midwives. Our best referral just turned us down because I told her kindly up front we probably wouldn't follow any of her nutritional advice and explained how changing our diet made it even possible to get pregnant. We definitely weren't going to change midstream. Once she "researched" Ray Peat she said it was too crazy and she couldn't go along with it. So she dumped us.
Now we're struggling to figure out what to do. We want to be honest with the midwife up front because we don't want the relationship to become adversarial along the way. But at the same time it's nearly impossible to try to explain eclampsia or gestational diabetes in differen terms.
I'm sure someone else has come up against this. Any advice on how to select a midwife while walking this road? Trying to get any form of "traditional medical care" is such a pain, the dogma is real.
Thanks in advance!