? About taking EPO and RRL tea in late pregnancy.

[GuavaGirl]

If you're planning to start taking EPO and RRL tea in late pregnancy, when are you starting, and with what dosage.....and where did you get that recommendation from?

Any thing else you're planning to start/have started in the 3rd trimester?


Thanks.

[carmen358]

At 36 weeks my midwife suggests taking 1000mg EPO orally in the morning and 1000mg EPO vaginally in the evening.

I starting drinking 2-3 cups of raspberry tea or a mixture at about 36 weeks too. Asked my midwife - she said it's fine. A lot of women drink it throughout their pregnancy - I was just paranoid because I'd had 2 m/c.

[mamakims]

My midwife wants me to wait until I'm 37 weeks (I'll be 36 on Monday) to start the EPO. I'll be taking two vaginally (with a little pin prick in the capsule) before bed and two orally in the morning.

I've been drinking RRL off and on throughout in the beginning but have been having cramping on and off throughout so I stopped at about 20 weeks. I just started again at 35 weeks and steep 3 or 4 tbls into a large mason jar of water and top it with some juice to make it taste a bit better. I make it befoer I go to bed and put it in the fridge so it's nice and cold in the am. I drink about 3 large glasses a day. My midwife says it's fine for use throughout but to stop if you have any cramping before 37 weeks.