How many Royal Blue Ice capsules should I be taking daily?

[Smokering]

Arrgh, I can't find a simple answer for this! I'm pregnant and nursing (minimally, a toddler), and bought some Royal Blue Ice capsules - you know the ones with a mixture of FCLO and HVBO. I was taking two a day, but just checked...

According to the WAPF guidelines, I should be taking TWENTY a day, and that's if they were pure FCLO - I assume the HVBO "dilutes" it somewhat, meaning I should take even more. But... blimey. That sounds incredibly high, and I can't afford it - we'd shoot through the two bottles we ordered (for NZ$140 all up!!) in less than two weeks. So I'm really hoping they're wrong. Obviously I want to get the benefits, and don't want to deprive small fetus-child of its rightful vitamin D... but I'm not going to put us in the poorhouse over this either. Plus, the capsules aren't hermetically sealed - they're kind of slimy and have a taste to them. I can stomach taking two, but I'd probably just vomit twenty back up again.

So, A: are they right - is twenty-plus capsules the correct RDA for me? And B: if you couldn't afford that many, what's the minimum that would still do me and the babe some good?

[kallyn]

I take the same pills and I just did the 2 capsules while preggo...can't even imagine how much money it would have been to take the WAPF guideline amount! I did take extra fish oil and vitamin D though.

[missbrett]

I remember reading the same thing ont he WAPF website, so I told myself a teaspoon of the liquid would be better than 10-20 capsules.

[Smokering]

I was going to get the liquid - I know it's cheaper. But I wasn't sure I could stomach swallowing it while pregnant. I thought I could still get it, though, and inject it into empty capsules if I needed to (a pain, but worth it financially). Only the site didn't sell the butter oil-FCLO mix in liquid form! Just the capsules.

Next time I guess I'll buy them separately... don't know why I didn't think of that before. I blame pregnancy. I do like the convenience of the capsules, though.

I eat *fairly* well - fish once or twice a week, LOTS of eggs, red meat a few times a week, etc - and it's coming into summer here, so I should get some vitamin D that way. So I'm not super, super concerned; I just kind of like the idea of doing it by the book for reasons of scientific experimentation. You know - "How Square Can Your Baby's Jaw Get?".