TTC-Boy Vegetarians-Protein Sources

[n710]

I thought I'd try to compile some protein sources for Vegetarians swaying blue.

There are the usual suspects, beans, eggs, and dairy.
Some of us may be wary of beans and dairy depending on what diet we are doing. The HE makes sense to me, but I am also trying to do the opposite of what got me girls and I had a lot of dairy with my last 3 girls. Anyway, thought we could come up with some other protein sources that could work more with any of the diets.

Here is what I have found so far.

1/4 cup sunflower seeds=7grams protein

2oz Barilla Whole Grain pasta=7 grams protein

1/2 cup old fashioned oats=5 grams protein


Anyone feel free to lmk if we are not supposed to be eating those foods for any reason. Any other veg. out there, feel free to add other boy friendly sources of protein that we may not think of.

[atomic sagebrush]

Nuts and nut butters!!!!

[Pearl327]

Hi n710,

I ate lots of dairy with my DD too. But my diet & exercise as a whole were girl friendly. I will not be giving up the dairy or beans for my boy sway as I will need all the protein help I can get.

Quinoa - 1 cup of cooked quinoa has 9g of protein. and it is a nice base for a packed lunch salad.

buckwheat - 1 cup cooked has 6g protein.

Multiseed bagel has about 9g of protein too. Yum served with nut butter and sliced banana or apple

[n710]

Hi n710,

I ate lots of dairy with my DD too. But my diet & exercise as a whole were girl friendly. I will not be giving up the dairy or beans for my boy sway as I will need all the protein help I can get.

Quinoa - 1 cup of cooked quinoa has 9g of protein. and it is a nice base for a packed lunch salad.

buckwheat - 1 cup cooked has 6g protein.

Multiseed bagel has about 9g of protein too. Yum served with nut butter and sliced banana or apple

Thanks Pearl,
I know what you mean. The more I think about it I realize how much less protein I have been eating since after having my son. I also did eat dairy (not ice cream though, mostly cheese) when I got pregnant with my son and I also drank watered down cranberry juice all the time.
After I had him I started drinking lemon water with a little sugar. I just have so many elements of girl and boy friendly foods with both my son and then the 3 girls that I am becoming more and more convinced it was the lack of protein and skipping meals/fewer calories how I got all the girls, not necessarily the exact foods I was eating.

I do have to try more Quinoa and buckwheat-we do love rice and beans though, well the kids and DH eat it a lot. I have been realizing, I just end up having a salad with a couple slices of cheese and some potato chips when they have that-definitely missing the protein. Pearl when are you TTCing?

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh and just from adding whole grain seed/oatmeal bread (I like Franz brand "Great Seed", "9 Grain" and "Buttermilk Oat" but I think that Franz is only available in the western US.) Great Seed also has poppy seeds so if you have to take drug tests, you can't eat it because you can get a false positive test. I have been having a hard time eating meat with this pg and I get 10 g of protein every time I eat a sandwich, just from my bread.

Full fat yogurt like Brown Cow is also great for protein.

[Pearl327]

Thanks Pearl,
I know what you mean. The more I think about it I realize how much less protein I have been eating since after having my son. I also did eat dairy (not ice cream though, mostly cheese) when I got pregnant with my son and I also drank watered down cranberry juice all the time.
After I had him I started drinking lemon water with a little sugar. I just have so many elements of girl and boy friendly foods with both my son and then the 3 girls that I am becoming more and more convinced it was the lack of protein and skipping meals/fewer calories how I got all the girls, not necessarily the exact foods I was eating.

I do have to try more Quinoa and buckwheat-we do love rice and beans though, well the kids and DH eat it a lot. I have been realizing, I just end up having a salad with a couple slices of cheese and some potato chips when they have that-definitely missing the protein. Pearl when are you TTCing?

n710 I will be TTCing in Oct/Nov. I was hoping to start in July but that was depending on my DD's hospital appointment. She has hip dysplasia and maybe needed an op to correct it this summer. But she is improving herself so a decision on the op has been postponed for 6 months. The op will now be in Jan if she needs it and I don't want to be heading into 3rd trimester and having a heavy toddler to carry around (as she will be in a cast and won't be able to walk or stand for 4 weeks)

When are you starting yourself ?

[n710]

Oh wow, good luck Pearl. Only one of my kids, DD#2 has had surgery. The beforehand was more nervewracking than the actual surgery. She did awesome and wasn't even phased.

We are starting in Sept./Oct. Just trying to get AF back after having DD#3 in March. It's always been 6 months or less so hopefully it does this time too;)

[Pearl327]

Well :fingers: that AF makes a timely appearence.

I was so stressed out before the appointment yesterday wondering what the outcome would be. And I am sure that if she did need the op I would be a lot more stressed out then she would be. She is a very outgoing and relaxed little girl and doesn't get phased by much. What I was really dreading was the time after the op if she was having it at 18 months. How do you explain to a young toddler who didn't have anything outwardly wrong with them that today she cannot move around by herself when the day before she could walk, run and climb.

[n710]

Yikes, I hear DD#2 is 18 months now and it would be hard to not have her walk. So does she not need the surgery???

[atomic sagebrush]

I hope you heard good news, Pearl!!

[Pearl327]

It was a non answer really but good news. She is improving on her own so they don't want to operate yet but she has not improved enough to rule out the operation. So we are going back in november and they will x-ray her pelvis again and if she has improved again on her own then they will continue to monitor her and if not then they will operate in Jan so we are going to continue on with our plans to TTC in oct and that way I won't be too big if my family history of looking sideways at a man without contraception and you end up pregnant continues for me, and if she is still improving on her own at that point there is no reason for me to think why she wouldn't still continue to improve herself. I have a large supportive family who will be there to help too if I need it.

[atomic sagebrush]

:pray: and PT headed your way!

I always like it when docs take a wait and see approach on stuff like that. :heart:

[n710]

Hugs P.
That is cool that your dr. wants to wait too. You never know what could happen and even if she does need the surgery things will be okay. I have really found in my life that when I am actually in the middle of the thing I spent a lot of time worrying about, it was never as been as my worries

[Pearl327]

yes it is great that they will wait but time is on their side on this one, as it doesn't affect her development in any way. It just puts more wear and tear on the joints so much so that I have a cousin with the same thing and she got arthritis at 18 and DH's cousin who is only 31 had to have a hip replacement operation last year. A collegue of mine also had the op that DD may need and she had it done when she was 12. So there is no rush and at least I will know that DD is getting every oportunity to let her hips develop naturally and if she still needs the op I will know that she definately needs it.

[ThroughWithBlue]

I'm not swaying blue but when I got pg with both my boys I ate obscene amounts of edamame (soybeans) daily, loved morningstar farms products can't remember what kind, want to say some sort of black bean/mexican type burger thing, their fake chicken patties. Also ate loads of cheez its/goldfish (surprisingly goldfish have good amt protein). Cheesey salty crackers were my fave back then. Not sure if these are boy friendly but they are vegetarian, and the Morningstar Farms are indeed loaded with sodium.

[n710]

I'm not swaying blue but when I got pg with both my boys I ate obscene amounts of edamame (soybeans) daily, loved morningstar farms products can't remember what kind, want to say some sort of black bean/mexican type burger thing, their fake chicken patties. Also ate loads of cheez its/goldfish (surprisingly goldfish have good amt protein). Cheesey salty crackers were my fave back then. Not sure if these are boy friendly but they are vegetarian, and the Morningstar Farms are indeed loaded with sodium.

The Spicy Black Bean burgers! I love those and the chix patties. I used to eat them a lot more too before DS. They are soy though so I don't plan to have them. I think they maybe helped though with DS because like you said the sodium and protein.

Now I am just trying to make my own (rice, beans, oatmeal, seasonings) or use Quorn products which aren't soy.

[n710]

yes it is great that they will wait but time is on their side on this one, as it doesn't affect her development in any way. It just puts more wear and tear on the joints so much so that I have a cousin with the same thing and she got arthritis at 18 and DH's cousin who is only 31 had to have a hip replacement operation last year. A collegue of mine also had the op that DD may need and she had it done when she was 12. So there is no rush and at least I will know that DD is getting every oportunity to let her hips develop naturally and if she still needs the op I will know that she definately needs it.

Is this a genetic condition at all? That's a good point that the hips will have longer to develop naturally, seems the best course

[Pearl327]

It can be genetic but they do not think so in my case as it is not in either my family or DH's family ( between the two families that is 12 girls) have it only 2 cousins 1 from each side out of 45 cousins. The other causes are breach position which was not the case here and lack of space in the uterus (most likely) it affects 1 in every 600 babies and is way more common in first born girls.

[n710]

that's crazy, wonder what all those things could have in common and why first born girls i wonder.
well, that is great not genetic so no passing on, i have most likely have a gene mutation that iam passing on and def. plan to make my kids check things out when they get older

[atomic sagebrush]

It can be genetic but they do not think so in my case as it is not in either my family or DH's family ( between the two families that is 12 girls) have it only 2 cousins 1 from each side out of 45 cousins. The other causes are breach position which was not the case here and lack of space in the uterus (most likely) it affects 1 in every 600 babies and is way more common in first born girls.

That's fascinating, thanks for sharing that!

[Pearl327]

yes it is really strange how it affects girls more so then boys. I would assume that it has something to do with the shape of our pelvis compared with the male one. At the clinic that we attended every week for the first 6 weeks after DD was born I only ever saw I baby boy all the rest were baby girls. But DH's cousin with it is male too but he was one of a twin so I think the space may have been an issue there too.

[atomic sagebrush]

Well, you just whetted my curiosity and so I did a little research. It sounds like it may be that the hormone (relaxin) we make that help our ligaments to stretch to allow a baby to pass through our pelvis, can come through the placenta and also affect babies, making their ligaments more stretchy (which makes some sense because babies have to be at least somewhat flexible to pass thru the birth canal.) Women and girls are more flexible to begin with and are affected by this hormone more strongly and so they are more likely to get hip dysplasia. Position in the womb does have a lot to do with it...if baby's legs are straight then it's more likely to happen than if they're bent into the fetal position.