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Community PageIt is really hard sometimes to have other people recommended diet changes--it is so easy to be defensive. Just be patient that over time, she might become more open to new ideas. The percieved "extremeness" of totally raw or vegan can seem so out of reach to someone eating conventional food.
I just took a road trip with my 74 year old father. This man is so fit and with it, but I was appalled at what he was eating--commercial chocolate milk and cinnamon pastries and bear claws, burgers...I seriously have to believe he eats better at home! He used to LOVE fresh fruit and I was walking (driving) around with a huge tupperware of fresh strawberries, plums and having watermelon for bfast--and I couldn't get him to touch a plum :( Until finally, he took one...then suddenly at the next stop he said...hey, that plum you had was pretty good :) then he ended up eating all the plums.
It takes time and allowing the other people space to come to terms with the ideas "on their own' (ie set an example without pushing).
I found that omega-3 made my milk increase in volume tremendously. I wasn't vegan at the time so ate salmon, but I would try vegan Omega-3 supplements. Do you have a midwife or someone that you can go to about nursing issues?
wyethia
