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[readynwilling]

i suck at taking vitamins.... when i was pregnant i only went through 2 bottles of prenatals, so 200 and the pregnany was 280 somethin' days lol. but i like to do multi, calcium, omegas and D.

Baking selenas birthday cake now! smells yummy

 

[Sarahkka]

Quick and from me!
Am doing shows and have a houseful of people (the ILs) are here.
I'm so tired!

Tiff - I take a multi prenatal (as I'm still nursing Tobe a lot) and lots of extra Vit D (usually 2000-3000 IUs per day). This is above the official RDA, but I think the Vit D Research Council is right and that most of us should have far more than we get from our diets and sunlight.

 

[ryder]

I think I need a vitamin to help with tiredness... I will have to go look some up lol

 

[MommyKC]

Quick from me too! As mentioned in my journal, on nights I decide to go to the gym now that I'm working, I don't make it on here. Just not enough time in the day!

I need a vitamin for sleep too. Everyone has suggested that melatonin but I cant find it anywhere? So I just bought some more Sleep-Eze today.

Two questions... just curious on everyone's opinions (asked in my journal too if you prefer to answer there )...
Are you getting flu shots for your kids?
And does anyone know where to buy JUST a bumper pad, for cheap?

 

[Reba]

Before I started on the prenatals I was taking a lot of stuffs
I went to costco and stocked up - Multi vitamin, vitamin D, vitamin C, Calcium Magnesium, and Omega 3's

Now I'm taking the prenatal vitamin along with vitamin D and Omega 3's - I had to cut out the calcium and the vitamin c as they were not happy with the prenatals... maybe I should add them in to a different meal

We don't eat any fish or sea food so my mom said I HAD to get the Omega 3 capsules.

 

[MamaBird]

Sorry ladies I just read this page

I am one TIIIIRED mama tonight. And I'll tell you something...we SAHM'a can be exhausted from long days taking care our our kiddos...but my hat's off to the Working mamas. Oh boy... I mean technically I guess I'm a WAHM, which leaves me tired most days...but today...working outside the home doing supply teaching... UGH...I feel like a zombie tonight! I mean I guess it didn't help that last night was Nathan's working night so I got to bed late and I was woken up at 3:30 and I think we stayed up talking for about an hour...then of course this morning Peyton was up just before 8. I was planning a nao and instead went to work

Anyway, re: vitamins. I am horrible for remembering them, but I take 1000mg Vit C and I have the One a day for Women.
Joss, for energy, my mom swears by the B50complex. I think from Jamieson?

Kate, we already talked about the flu shot and I have no idea about bumpers. Sorry. I can only imagine now how you feel when you need to go to the gym and stuff..

 

[Vickie]

We all received our flu shots at my doctors appointment last Friday.

Not sure about where to buy just a bumper pad though

 

[ryder]

Thanks brig I really appreciate your comment about working moms I hope you get a good rest tonight!

I was reading up on some things and I was reading about colon cleasing herbs and acai berry actually being good for energy and losing weigh. Im not entirely sure on them though since i've never taken any o that stuff.

 

[Vickie]

Sara--have you watched the new show Worst Cooks in America? It's pretty amusing this one poor woman was saying that her kids cried every time she cooked them dinner

 

[Melissa_M]

Kate last time I was at Value Village there were a lot of crib bumpers for sale just by themselves....used obviously, but they're washable.

Brig sounds like a long day!! You've been busy lately eh? I agree that it would be more exhausting going to work all day rather than staying at home....especially when you still have to do the "mom duties" when you get home.

 

[readynwilling]

hugs Brig.

Joss - you do sound really tired. (as much as you can sound on a forum) B complex vitamins do help with energy. but im sure that you have a ton on your plate and it might be more than vitamins alone can fix. I hope you feel better soon!

Vickie - no i haven't seen it.. i'll see if i can add it to my PVR. i love to watch my PVR'd food shows during the day when TV SUCKS.

I have baked a giant cupcake, made the "flower pot" for the regular cupcakes, and made some purple chocolate flowers and butterflies. i have a TON left to do for this simple birthday cake... and i have signed up for the gingerbread... i must be nuts.

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Kate, try a second hand store, Kijiji or Liquidation World. I think they have some.

So, I calculated the total cost of the program I'm getting into. At this point, I can't afford it, but I have to find a way. I can't get OSAP again because I still owe money, and if I have to find $3400 by December, there's no way I can find $11,000 by then to get another loan. Ugh, I hate all this stress.

I had a dream last night that my appeal was approved. Wishful thinking, I guarantee it. I think I'm going through with a lawsuit. That'll be fun...school and a lawsuit all at once.

We don't do the flu vaccine here, ever. Then again, apart from Zoe's school entry vaccine, to confirm or rule out vaccine as a trigger, we don't do them at all. A friend of mine posted an interesting article yesterday about how studies show the flu vaccine prevents the flu in only 1.5 out of 100 people.

It's quite an good read.

https://www.naturalnews.com/033998_influenza_vaccines_effectiveness.html

 

[Melissa_M]

That article was kind of confusing.

I'm still getting it because it's free and it's never done me any harm.

 

[BrandiCanucks]

What was confusing about it? I can see if I can decode.

 

[Vickie]

It's not a great show but it was amusing Some of the stuff those people cooked made me though

not much going on here today! Art class this afternoon. Hannah's doing stickers and coloring right now, I think I'll go join her (I love coloring )

 

[MamaBird]

We don't get the flu shot either. When I was working with Kate, the RN that works in Kate's departement...He told us that the flu shot only protects against one strain of the flu...and there are a lot. The only ppl he'd suggest to consider getting it is older seniors who are more frail, or ppl who have health issue and a lowered immune system. But him and his wife (who also works there) both said that it's really not necessary for adults and children who are generally healthy people.

 

[Tiff]

Flu shot is a source of contention here in our house. I don't want it for myself, but have heard that kids can be more susceptible to the flu so I want to get it for Claire. P doesn't like it at ALL though so its hard to try and figure out what to do. He is of the same mindset as you Brig.

He worked in a hospital for nearly 8 years and that's where he says he got his opinions, from the doctors there.


Sarah - Is Vit D water soluble or fat soluble? I suppose my diet gets enough of both though. I just started taking 1000mg a day above what is in my multivitamin, which (again) is the same as Brig's.

That TV show sounds funny!!!! I'd die if Claire started crying if I fed her dinner.

 

[tasha41]

Kate - IKEA has crib bumpers, under $20 for plain I think, and I think it's something they ship... Also for that M vitamin (have no idea how to spell it off hand) my friend got it at Costco I think... I want to try it out too!

I've been taking prenatal vitamins no idea if that's bad for me but I'm mostly doing it for my nails!!

Getting rid of Elyse's Bounce N' Spin Zebra, her giraffe rocker, and this cat scratching post so that my living room feels bigger. Also sending ottoman and one of our end tables to the basement... Crib pieces to my mom's, a baby gate...

Possibly going to list my high chair on Kijiji for free too, but honestly the responses to free ads are overwhelming, I had 44 replies in 2 hours to the listings I put up yesterday..

 

[Vickie]

wow Tasha that's so great that you're giving your baby stuff away, very nice of you

the show was pretty amusing Tiff We watch Food Network a lot when nothing else is on

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Vaccines in general are a source of contention in this house too. We both downright agree to no chicken pox, no flu, and no Gardasil (that thing is friggin scary as hell), but Mike doesn't like that I refuse to vaccinate Isaiah and Anberlin. Even though Zoe's geneticist recommended holding off, Mike is still under the mindset that the government and Big Pharma are correct and "wouldn't lie to us about safety". He's scared that those two will get one of those diseases and die, even though most are eradicated and those that are not do not cause as scary side effects as we're told. Sure, the complications can be horrific, but I'd rather my child get sick with a treatable disease and have full immunity than inject chemicals into them every few years and screw up their immune systems, or risk another injured child.

Which, you can guess my standpoint. I'm not comfortable with the ingredients or chemicals and things like that. The chances of my kids actually catching those diseases is already rare, so I'm not afraid of them getting the diseases, if they are to get it. Improvements in hygiene and sanitation have also helped in the eradication, and in fact, was responsible for a huge decrease in Polio before the introduction of the vaccine. I'm also not allowing the government and Big Pharma to fearmonger me into getting it for my kids.

But that's my standpoint.

Another interesting study found that although vaccines have appeared to eradicate diseases, the ingredients have severely altered our immune systems so that we're actually created new diseases. They're linking the increase in asthma and life-threatening allergies to the increase in the number of vaccines our kids receive.