Sorry for the delay. I typed a long response to you on my phone, then I got an incoming call and lost it!! I haven't had the heart to retype it till now

The boiled veggies are because the gut health is compromised in GAPSters and they are unable to easily digest food. Boiled veggies are easier to digest so GAPSters will actually get more out of them than fibrous, hard to digest steamed veggies. I saw this happen with my baby as he woudl pass steamed veggies undigested but has been okay on boiled veggies. I also give him roasted veggies too. I generally boil the veggies in broth to up the nutrition in the veggies, but it also means I keep the liquid the veggies were cooked in so we eat all of the nutrients one way or another.

Adjusting from being vegetarian was pretty huge. While researching the diet online, this was the big thing holding me back. During a phone consultation with Dr Louise Porter she was telling me we had to get our family onto GAPS and I was told her it was going to be hard as we are vegetarian and she said "Yes, but you'd throw yourself under a bus wouldn't you? If you could heal your son, you would throw yourself under a bus". She was right and those words rung in my ears many times as we transitioned onto the diet. After talking to her I finally bought and read the book and that was it, I was convinced we had to do it. So eating meat just had to happen. I had been vegetarian for 15 years, most of my adult life and I don't really know how to cook it! The first thing I made was boiled meat and I gagged it down. We spent maybe about 2 months adjusting to the new cooking and preparing to eat this food before the actual day that we started full GAPS and got our son on the diet. If you don't like pork, don't eat it. I have found I prefer it to beef so that's why we have it. We also buy all our meat organic and free range from the local market, but if you can't do that then pork is best avoided as I believe pigs are treated pretty badly in factory farming.

Natasha Campbell-McBride recommends being on GAPS for 6 months before falling pregnant to give you and your partner a good chance to build up healthy gut flora. I personally think a little bit less time pre-TTC wouldn't hurt if you continued to follow through with the diet while pregnant and while baby is young. Your gut flora only matters at birth and beyond anyway. I remember reading in The Natural Way to Better Babies that you shouldn't do any detox within 6 (?) months before conception and the intro diet can be pretty detoxing. If you're not debilitated by your GAPS condition then I would just go to full GAPS and look at perhaps doing intro later. Some people never do intro and still see plenty of great healing. The intro is really good to kick start recovery for those with major digestive issues or debilitating conditions (such as severe depression and autism).