Children and Baby Vegetarians

Having just read Dyana35226’s opinion in the Pregnancy and Vegetarianism section here, I felt compelled to offer an alternative view. Her opinion says that following a vegetarian diet in pregnancy “causes retardation, causes malnutrition” and is “harmful to the fetus”. This is scaremongering and untrue. The vegetarian diet is fine for pregnant women to follow, babies and children of all ages. A vegan diet is usually not recommended, as dairy produce provides an important part of what the body needs, but we are talking about vegetarianism here – no meat, no fish, no animal fats, but yes, we eat cheese, yoghurt, eggs and so on. ...

Little Treasure has been a veggie since she was weaned. I'm practicaly sure she has never eaten any meat products except for the time little Harry age 2 tried to feed her a ham butty at a birthday party. LT bless her took a bite then looked at it and shouted in a booming voice "We don't eat meat do we Mummy?" My reasons for becoming a veggie were not the I don't want to kill animals or I just don't like the taste of meat reasons that others might give. My main reason was basically after yet another meat related health scare exposed in the media I thought enough was enough. I was a veggie during my pregnancy and had a very healthy ...

I am a vegetarian. I was a vegetarian child, a vegetarian baby, hell I was a vegetarian embryo. My mum was a single parent, still at university when she had me, the kind of woman who is at the front of every campaign and rally that they believe in, she even had me in a women's hospital, I was the last baby born there because she was occupying it before it was knocked down. She was very much the kind of person who totally believed that it was an evil thing to eat meat, and even worse to feed it to an innocent child. So I was born and raised as vegetarian as they come. Now, a lot of people out there are the opposite, and say that making your child ...