I need advice on Dessicated Liver & breastfeeding...

[grape-april]

Hello, dear mothers,

I am a wreck. All of my symptoms correlate with pretty bad anemia & I'm going for blood tests to confirm it today.

Although I am working to resolve it with major iron supplementation, I never want to be in this situation again. I've been a vegetarian since I was a small child and so far, I can't get over my mental block about directly eating meat, but seriously, I am ready to ingest some.

So I would like to start taking Dessicated Liver tablets/capsules. But when I searched the internet it said it was incompatible with breastfeeding. Why? Does anyone have any answers?

And, if you believe it *is* safe for breastfeeding, can you give me advice on safe brands to buy and terms to look for? I don't want to get a really toxic kind and I don't know what I'm doing.

Thank you for ANY help,
April

[ameliabedelia]

I have taken freeze-dried liver before while breastfeeding. http://www.drrons.com/thyroid-adrena...glandulars.htm while breastfeeding. I have even fed it to my toddler.

I think freeze-dried liver is simply freeze-dried liver. I never heard not to eat liver while pregnant or breastfeeding or not to feed liver to children, so I'm not sure why freeze-fried liver would be different?

I would only eat completely organic liver, additive-free, hormone-free, etc. liver.

[grape-april]

Thank you

Much appreciated. So far I'm looking at Dr. Ron's Freeze Dried Liver and Energy Iron which is a softgel of some sort.

A lot of these products seem to be more vitamin B than iron; I'm assuming that if I get the iron directly from an animal source, maybe a lot less of it is necessary.

[MyLilPwny]

Dr. Ron's are very high quality, healthy supplements.

I've taken Uni-Liver desiccated liver tablets while breastfeeding. I don't know why they would be bad