We Had a Baby on a Raw Vegan Diet

Host Alex sits down with Carlos and Zaia — parents of baby Atmanu — for a live audience conversation at The Raw Temple in Ubud on raw vegan pregnancy, birth and parenting. Zaia shares what actually happened when she tried to stay fully raw through pregnancy: the morning sickness, the two months of eating mostly durian, and the postpartum lactation crisis she traces back to stress rather than food. Carlos explains why diet is always the first thing blamed when a vegan family hits a problem, and why they sourced donor breast milk rather than turning to formula — plus free birthing in Costa Rica and setting boundaries with grandparents.