Pinkie--17 weeks already. Yay! Are you starting to have a bump?
2have--sorry to be a total begger of information, but I'm intrigued by the possibility of using Norethisterone. Would you be willing to share with me exactly what your meds were for the lead-up to your twins Reprofit cycle? I'd prefer to go to my nurse with some knowledge of specifics related to how it's used for an FET cycle, rather than just, "I've heard of this drug..." I'd really appreciate it! Thanks for being such a good resource.
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Crystal has the best diet & protocol by far that I've heard so far from any b&b ladies, and I think by now she may have even started hers as she's up soon in November. The only thing I haven't been so good at was taking calcium but I've tried to do better coming into second tri as I now also supplement with a liquid Cal + Mag in the morning. But taking most of my advice from her with the drugs that I could get my hands on, this was my protocol:
Northisterone is progesterone based, you take it for a certain amount of time I think 10 days (I will check for you all of the details when I get home from work tonight on my pill box), and then your AF is guaranteed to come 7-8 days later.
For the protocol I was on
-Prednisone 30 mg starting cd1, take in the morning as it can mess with your sleep. Try Magnesium at night if it does mess with your sleep.
-Lupron injections starting cd1
-Estrogen starting cd1 (5 mg 3x/day)
-Progesterone injections 5 days before transfer, 5 days is minimum any less and the coordinator would refuse the transfer (there was almost a mix up with my transfer as the coordinator didn't give me the specific date to start taking it so they had to bump my transfer back by 1 day - talk about stress!)
-NAC
-Pregvit which breaks the calcium and iron into 2 pills and has iodine. I also take another iron tab with the pink (iron) pregvit pill.
EmergenC when I take the iron tabs at night. https://www.emergenc.com/ Also helps you avoid getting sick while prednisone knocks out your immune system. But my main reason is to help iron absorb.
liquid calcuim + mag in the morning with the blue Pregvit pill.
-Folate 5mg/day until 2nd tri when I reduced it to 3 mg/day as there's new evidence that too much B12 and folate (5-10mg folate) have links to autism. Pregvit also has 1mg folic acid.
B complex by AOR https://www.aor.ca/en/product/advanced-b-complex SO many B complexes have made me nauseated over the years, this one is super easy to digest and absorb.
Diet-wise, you know...you seem to eat much like I do for an anti-candida, anti-inflammatory diet. Avoid sugary drinks ie juice and pop, avoid white processed foods white bread, pasta, white rice, desert things, crackers, chips etc. Lots of veggies, curries, turmeric, high protein dairy (avoid fruit flavours as they have the same amount of sugar as candy bars - plain greek with protein more than carb content), fruits, I love spicy foods and always add hot peppers to my stir fries, they're right at the top of the chain for anti-inflammatory foods as are ginger & garlic. I was having decaf coffee in the morning until the pregnancy took over my love of the stuff. Now my head craves it but my mouth & taste buds tell me no! no! no!
Lots of fresh air, good movies, love and laughter!
I hope that helps a little Vonn, wishing you all the best! LOTS of healthy eggies
if you're vegetarian the only thing I'd watch is that you're getting B12 supplements and 71g of protein/day. Nutritiondata.com is s fantastic resource for measuring how much protein is in the foods you eat. My mom is a vegetarian and she not only needs to take protein shakes but she takes liquid calcium/magnesium as there's not enough in her diet to prevent Osteoporosis. She doesn't eat soy or dairy either, soy mimicks estrogen, something that is NOT healthy for pre/post menopausal women. Are you on pinterest? I'd love to see your recipes. I'm always looking for new things to cook for when she comes over. She made me a bean veggie soup that I can't wait to dig into!
I've never considered beans, cheese, avacado proteins since they're typically below 20% protein (80%+ carb) and you'd literally need to eat buckets full to satisfy a pregnant woman's protein requirements. It's a little like iron, to satisfy a pregnant lady's daily iron needs you'd need to eat 28 heaping plates of spinach. And ungortunayely spinach sourced iron isn't easily digested. So nix ~ 25% for poor absorption and we're still at a deficit. I use fitday to breakdown my diet for me and even with protein in meat form I'm barely able to meet my nutritional goals.
