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[confuzion]

Hello. .. am on cd9. Am not around much at mo as trying to avoid becoming too obsessed with ttc also have started job hunting so trying to focus on that. Am still here lurking in background though. ..

Good to hear from you nugget. Hope your job hunt sees some success soon!

 

[confuzion]

Angelbaby - yay for ovulating. I personally take my prenatals with a bunch of extra vitamins. It would take MEGA doses of vitamin c to POSSIBLY induce miscarriage. But if you prefer to err on the side of caution, taking the prenatal should be enough unless you have some sort of deficiency.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Angelbaby - yay for ovulating. I personally take my prenatals with a bunch of extra vitamins. It would take MEGA doses of vitamin c to POSSIBLY induce miscarriage. But if you prefer to err on the side of caution, taking the prenatal should be enough unless you have some sort of deficiency.

What do you take?

DD was not planned at all and at the time I got pregnant with her I took vitamin B complex for energy and not knowing I was pregnant. I recently read somewhere that it helps with progestorone levels and wonder if that made that I could keep DD and maybe lost my other two? I will never know, but thought it's worth a try?

 

[confuzion]

Lol it would take all day to list all the supplements I take. I'll give it a shot though.

Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Vitamin D3
Zinc
Calcium, potassium, magnesium
Magnesium by itself (for a 1:1 ratio with calcium)
Salmon oil with curcumin (started this more recently for a blood thinning effect)
Krill oil (omega 3s and DHA)
Pollock oil (I alternate this with krill oil--not on the same day)
Astaxanathin (anti-oxidant)
Probiotics
Iron (only started this recently because I've become anemic after m/c)

All of my supplement are derived from organic whole foods. So I don't worry about it because I'm getting the nutrition from what I could be eating. Also my fish oils are all tested for mercury so that's not a worry either.

I may or may not have missed some stuff.

But I'd say I'm a little overboard when it comes to supplements. My husband is a health nut. He buys these things for me and I take them lol.

 

[confuzion]

I don't really know about the B complex. My midwife does recommend it. And we have it in the house. But I don't take it because I already have a lot of folate (folic acid) in my supplements and personally don't think that I need it.

I never heard about it acting like progesterone. That's interesting.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

O wow. You got a list going! lol

Do you take each separately or in one tablet?

I can list what my prenatal vitamins contain and you can tell me what I can add if you see something.

it's per capsule:

Fish oil 417mg
Omega 3 75mg
Vitamin A 781 ug RE
Vitamin B1 1.4mg
Vitamin B2 1.4mg
Vitamin B3 15mg
Vitamin B6 1.9mg
Folic acid 600ug
Vitamin B12 2.6ug
Biotin 30ug
Vitamin C 70mg
Vitamin D 6.5ug
Vitamin E 15mg
Calcium 102mg
Copper 1mg
Iodine 150ug
Iron 15mg
Magnesium 30mg
Manganese 1mg
Phosphorus 5mg
Selenium 25ug
Zinc 8mg
Choline 10mg
Potassium 5mg

 

[confuzion]

Lol actually that list is everything I take in addition to my prenatal. Some of them 1 extra tablet and some more depending on the dosage. I take upwards of 20 pills a day.

This is the info on the prenatal I'm currently using:
https://www.thevitamincode.com/Port...SupplementFacts/TVCRAWPrenatal_90_Aug2011.jpg

And I'm no expert so I don't know if that's enough lol. Probably is!

 

[Angelbaby_01]

What are your opinions on pre-conception vitamins? Lol I am still trying to educate myself and feel so confused at all the options.

 

[confuzion]

I don't know what those are. Are they like a prenatal but for before you're actually pregnant?

 

[LeahLou]

Phew! I need to get vitamins but now I'm scared!!

Pre-pregnancy/pre-conception is the same thing

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Ok, so the I won't bother with the pre-conception ones then lol.

Confuzion - I see the prenatal you are taking contains brewer's yeast and it helps with increasing milk production when breastfeeding.

 

[Rahma]

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[GingerPanda]

Welcome back! Let's conceive some rainbows!

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Hi Rahma!

Oh dear, my cousin just asked me if I am pregnant already and she doesn't know that we are ttc. The question cought me off guard and made me tear up.

Not cool man, not cool at all!!

 

[GingerPanda]

Right after I found out I had PCOS, one of hubs's tactless coworkers asked me at a company function, "Hey, so you guys are the only ones in the office with no kids. Is there something wrong with you?"

He is lucky that was before the loss. He is also lucky he is working remotely from Florida and will not be at the company event next weekend. I would probably stab him in the neck.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Gosh, that is so insensitive. I would have stabbed and punched him.

 

[confuzion]

Good to see you back Rahma! I was worried about you. Good luck for testing Monday!

Sorry you poor ladies have had those kind of insensitive comments from people. For me the most insensitive things have just been people talking about their excitement of other babies due the same time as my last miscarriage. And they know I miscarried. Breaks my heart. But those who haven't experienced loss will never understand.

I was talking to my husband last night about what we went through and it made me tear up for the first time in a while. I remember him regretting not recording the heartbeat after we heart it at our first ultrasound, and so at our second, he had his phone ready to record it. And of course there was no heartbeat. Made me so sad when I remembered. I feel like a big failure to him sometimes though of course it was out of my hands.

This whole pregnancy loss stuff just really stinks.

 

[confuzion]

But on brighter notes. I'm 6DPO today. So halfway there! Don't think this cycle is it. My temps have been super flat and on the low side sort of for my tww. Just anxious to be able to try again.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

aaww confuzion, I get where you are coming from. With my first scan I had my phone ready to record a video about everything for DH because he was out of country and then the doctor told me baby measured 6+1 weeks so I decided against it because I was so sure of my dates.

I still get teary and I am really scared because I don't know if I will be able to get pregnant and if I do will I be able to carry a baby full term that is healthy and can come home with me straight away. I had two losses now and and DD was in NICU for a month after she was born and we nearly lost her.

I guess we can only focus on the positives then. Yay for being 6dpo and fx for you! Hopefully af will visit me soon.............

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Just wanted to remind you ladies.................

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