Raising Raw Vegan Baby: Help!

[RawVeganLove]

i'm really sorry to hear about all the torment you are going through. my baby is due in a few weeks and i am so eager. i just can't wait to have a baby and raise this child the way i wish i could have been raised: completely raw, no formula EVER, no vaccinations (YUCK....poison...ewwww) homeschooling...

i am even going to try the diaperless thing if you've heard of it, co-sleeping and basically like everything that the govt is against!

why does health insurance cover doctors and drugs but not massages and colonics? these will make us healthy. not drugs. the govt just doesn't want us to be healthy because then they aren't making any money from our sickness. but i'm not going to argue with society because that is how i will end up in jail and have my baby taken away from me. why it's illegal to raise a healthy baby is just insane! feeding a child candy and soda...now THAT is child abuse! not breastmilk and avocado puree!!!

okay, after reading all this, i gotta say, sadly, i don't have much advice. all i can do is say that i can definitely relate to you. you aren't alone. i'm in the same boat. even tho my baby isn't even born yet, friends are constantly bugging me. even my brother is saying i need to get the baby circumsized if it's a boy. i don't take anyone's advice unless they are into a natural lifestyle like me. i definately don't take advice from anyone who eats meat.

i don't go to doctors, but if i did, i would never ever say i was raw or even mention that i'm vegan....not even vegetarian because doctors will say it's unhealthy. i agree with what the other ppl said about trying NOT to tell ppl about how you raise your child when it comes to being different. ppl don't understand what's different. they freak out and think it's unhealthy when it's the exact opposite. i can't stand ppl constantly butchering me about my diet and because of this i have hardly any friends. that doesn't bother me at all tho because my family is my life. i also have you ppl online who i can relate with.

one of my friends thinks i'm such a natural freak that she said "i can just imagine you in the future living naked in the jungle with monkeys" she said it as a joke, but to me, it sounded fantastic. i'd need ppl tho, too, cuz with only monkeys i'd get pretty bored. it just shows you how natural i want to be tho!

i hope people start to leave you alone. maybe when they notice that your child is full of energy, a fast learner, and basically just better at everything than anyone else on the playground because of super magic food, then people will stop telling you to follow their unsuccessful methods.

you could try telling them about jinjee, storm, and their FIVE raw super healthy children, but i've learned that ppl only hear what they want to hear and i'm usually just wasting my time trying to tell them about my diet and way of life.

[Forestdawn]

I had a exceptionally healthy 80% raw pregnancy that all the health ppl commented on as I didn't blow up like a balloon n gain way too much weight. My daughter had massive problem during labor and wasn't expected to live when born. She went 30 mins with a third of normal oxegon and not only pulled thru has very little changes to her brain. I'm sure that her being a raw baby helped give her the strenght to fight to live.

I've just started solids and find she hates cooked food and loves fruit so have been giving her mostly fruit custards with some grains. If she enjoys raw I'm not in a hurry to give her cooked vege's.

I'm nursing and have a huge supply of milk and am currently 80-90% raw.

ppl don't understan how much better for u RAW is. Beats SAD everytime.

[mangome]

I have a 7 month old son, we both eat only fruit, and he is still nursing. The concerns that I encountered were similar to yours. But, proving your child's health is unnecessary, unless it is you who is uncertain. Bloodtests and exams? I also have felt people's attempts to debate and argue, and am not interested. I have a mental list of resources that I point an interested skeptic to, but all the usual questions: "What about PROTEIN!?" or "Where does the B12 come from!?" .... on and on.. these can be answered in my mind by years of personal development and research, reading reading reading. Often I wanted to explain in detail why an argument is invalid or moot or just ridiculous.. But I feel that unless one finds it out of seeking, the truthful answer will remain untrue to them.

In my opinion,
-a woman ought to pay close attention to her own body's detoxification process while pregnant and breastfeeding
-a child will know what to eat and when to eat if he is allowed to develop this natural instinct. This is why I never puree food or spoon feed, or ask... just observe and provide

[livinglove]

I raised four children raw food. Homebirth, I was the midwife, homeschooled, no shots, no TV, mostly rural living,etc. They are beautiful, healthy, and happy. They are each talented and intelligent in their own ways. My wife (I don't like the words 'my wife' by definition) and I contemplated how we didn't want to use the children as a validation or posterkids for our own principles, so we didn't gung ho with strict schooling or pressure them to be strong models or examples of success. (Proof to our argument with the society around us). They are growing up just fine and socially well adjusted as well.
Nothing superhuman, just wonderfully human. Kind and loving and clear minded are some of the more obvious qualities in them.
Sadly, my wife just broke things off with me after 16 years of marriage and seems to want to pursue more socially normal avenues of life and is leading the children towards her direction. I suspect that they are even discontinuing raw food due to ignorant sources on the internet that suggested that raw food is not sufficient and so forth.
Anyway, a lifestyle such as what you have indicated that you wish, can be very, very difficult for people to maintain. The perception of resistance from the society around you, the lack of full support of family, relatives, and often even friends, and the more likely than not, economic disadvantage of being such a minority (the minority of minorities). My experiences lead me to believe that it takes a village...
A strong network and close friends would be your greatest asset with the world around you.
You would be welcome to chitchat with me off the forum on these topics that may not be totally raw food alone related. I would suppose that my user name or profile provides a link to email through. Like I've indicated, I walked this way before for a quite long time, through sometimes tremendous opposition, and lived all over this country, and maybe could lend some helpful insights and fruits from my experience in these kind of matters.

[Brainwaves]

Originally Posted by gracegagnon

I have an 8 month old daughter whom I am raising organic, vegan, and raw. I am experiencing a lot of resistance and condemnation from family members who disagree with my beliefs on parenting, especially with what I eat (I am nursing also) and what I feed her. My own sister even called DSS on me. My daughter is exceptionally healthy and thriving. I wish everyone would leave me alone, because I believe that the diet that we are eating is without a doubt the best diet for both me and her. I would like support on this from other mothers who are raising their children similarly, and from doctors and professionals who advocate a living foods diet. What can I do to provide reassurance to family that what I am doing isn't "crazy"? I want whats best for my daughter, and I want these ignorant family members off my back! Please help, thanks!

There is nothing you can do to stop them from saying what their are saying, let a lone to accept your philosophy or life style.
What they think of you "is not" you business. And "Do Not" make it your business.
Like this, misery likes company.(gain some loose some).
There are people out there, that can not do what you are doing, do not undesrtand what you are doing, and do not allow you to do it either. (ignorance is bless for many others).
If you accept what you are doing for you and your daughter,with the best possible understanding and accept it as true and correct, tell them all, (what they think of you is NOT your business.
I went through the same with my daughter, and told them to go and fly a Kyte.

Brainwaves