Re: Pre-Conception Vitamin Amount Recommendations? Organs..

[Guest guest]

Dan

Our church has, at any time, as many as 20 pregnant ladies or more...

at one point around 6 or more of them were waking up each morning and

first thing taking an ounce or a few ounces of chopped up raw liver

to stave off morning sickness... ironically (from a modern

standpoint), it worked wonderfully for all six (wonderfully meaning

that their morning sickness was greatly reduced or eliminated, though

some still felt nauseous at times, none had the projectile vomiting

that had characterized earlier pregnancies or earlier in that

pregnancy). Furthermore, most of these ladies, unfortunately, were

still eating a very poor diet... so it worked in spite of the deck

being stacked against them.

> >

> > I've seen the WAP food guidelines for pregnant and nursing

mothers

> and

> > I follow many of them. I know that some people here don't believe

in

> > vitamins, since our food should be enough. However, in my case, I

> > think my body has been deficient in many things for years. In the

> > fall, I had my vitamin and mineral levels checked. B12 was almost

> > getting low and everything else was fine. I'd been taking massive

> > doses of things for 6 months in my quest to heal my adrenal

fatigue.

> > It seems that when a person takes 10,000% percent of the RDA of

> > something (in my case, pantothenic acid), and their blood levels

are

> > in the middle of normal, then their body must not being absorbing

it

> > right, or they need more than most people.

> >

> > Anyway, I imagine that before I started taking a zillion

vitamins, I

> > must've been deficient in several things. My goal is to make sure

> I'm

> > not low on anything before conceiving. I had severe morning

sickness

> > last time, which I hope to avoid. I was looking through Adelle

> 's

> > book " Let's Have Healthy Children " and saw the chart of her

> > recommended vitamin doses. Of course, I'm sure a lot of new

research

> > has come out in 30 years, so I'd like your opinions of how much I

> > should take of various things.

> >

> > I'm especially interested in your opinions of these amounts she

> > recommended:

> >

> > -3 mg iodine (my multi has 150 mcg)

> > -1000 mg choline

> > -1000 mg inositol

> > -1-5 mg folic acid

> >

> > Also, what is your opinion of vitamin K? My multi doesn't have

any.

> > Finally, I'm thinking of following Dr. Klennar's recommendations

on

> > vitamin C (4 g/day for the first trimester then increasing the

> amounts

> > after that).

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I had a small amount of morning sickness with my first pg. Almost none

with my second (WAP) pregnancy. I ate raw frozen liver whenever I could,

and Floradix with protein and fat when I couldn't. It worked for me, but

I was eating well.

Desh