Product Review: Leaf & Love Organic Lemonade
Lemme go ahead and tell you about one of the greatest injustices of our modern world: You are a normal person until one day, you take a pregnancy test that comes back positive. It is everything you ever hoped for and simply amazing.
And then you realize that for the next nine months, you will be giving up your two best friends in this entire world: wine and coffee.
Ok, ok sorry, I’m being pretty dramatic about this but it IS a bummer. Here you are, ready to celebrate your new little bundle and simultaneously TOTALLY STRESSED OUT because you will soon have a person that means more to you than anything in the world in your house. And to get that person there in a healthy and happy fashion, YOU Mama-to-be with Type 1 diabetes need to keep those numbers more ship-shape than you ever have before. And guess what? That is stressful. And on stressful days, I like two things: a ton of coffee and a nice, thick glass of red wine with my dinner.
You can have a little coffee while you’re pregnant – up to 200mg per day or about one cup. Which if you’re me, is approximately one one hundredth of my normal intake…ok not that much but it’s a downgrade, for sure. And wine, as with all booze, is totally off limits of course. Double downgrade. Trouble is, there’s not much I can replace these two things with either, given the T1D. Some women have sparkling flavored waters, or ginger ale, or juices and smoothies. All of these things usually have a lot of added sugar that I’m not willing to bolus for and try to manage. And the ones that don’t contain too many chemicals to count – things I don’t love even when I’m not pregnant but are more top of mind than ever. Basically my choices are water, soda water, and milk. I’m bored.
Then a nice person from a company called Leaf & Love emailed me and asked if I’d like to try their lemonade. The lemonade was created by two moms, one of whom has a child with T1D. It’s made with all natural ingredients, and sweetened with Stevia (which is considered safe for pregnant people, BTW). And truly, a look at the ingredients proves its authenticity: filtered water, organic lemon, Stevia, and a touch of Himalayn pink salt. They created this concoction in their own kitchens until it became so popular in the neighborhood that they started their company. They shipped me a box of lemonades…which are now gone.
They are gone because this lemonade is absolutely delicious, and only has two grams of carbs per box. Two grams! I don’t have to bolus for it and it tastes great. It is a life-saving alternative to the boredom of water, and is just the cold drink a pregnant chick needs as the days start to heat up more and more around here. Seriously, I love this stuff. And although not many retailers carry it right now, you can get I on Amazon.com in a 32 –pack case (I just ordered two). To top it all off, they also donate portion of their proceeds to the Insulin for Life campaign – how cool is that?
A wonderful find at just the right time – many thanks to Leaf & Love for the samples. Learn more at their website and order your own here at Amazon. And, because the folks over at Leaf & Love are so generous, they want to give you a special code to save you $3 on your order! Enter code SAVELOVE at checkout!
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I can sympathize. In my pregnancy, people have been kindly offering me the typical non-alcoholic substitution drinks like sparkling apple juice in lieu of whatever is being served to everyone else. Unfortunately the MASSIVE PILE OF SUGAR in those drinks means I end up with water…very festive! 
My go-to drink when I was pregnant was fruit water…I would fill up a pitcher with water and then add whatever fruit sounded good - berries, orange slices, lemon slices, etc. Let it sit overnight and you have a yummy, low carb (as long as you don’t eat the fruit), alternative to plain water. As a bonus, you can mix up the fruit from day to day so you’re not drinking the same thing every day. Also, perrier makes flavored sparkling water with no carbs (and minimal artifical ingredients) - the grapefruit is delicious!
The other thing that would probably be helpful is getting a swimsuit (probably a few different sizes). As you and the weather start cooking, you are really gonna want to soak in a pool or a nice cool lake.
My sister-in-law loved soaking in the lake when she was cooking her first-born!