What supplements do you take? - Page 3

[ani'smommy]

Originally Posted by greengrey

What don't I take would be an easier Q. I am a living pharmacy. I have to take a lot of these supplements b/c of my clotting genes so pregnant or not, half of them I have to take for the rest of my life.

- 1 generic Pre-natal
- 2 extra mg of Folic Acid for a total of 3mg a day
- 2 Garlic tablets
- 1, Calcium with Magnesium tablet
- 1, 1000 mcg of B12
- 1, 100 mg of B6
- 1 Baby Aspirin (81mg)
- 1, 1200mg Super Omega 3 from Omega Pur

I take all of mine at night or else I'd be so sick to my stomach.

Wow, 3 mgs! I was kind of worried about taking 1 mg. I guess I shouldn't worry.

I'm taking SuperNutrition Prenatals (3 a day for now) and about 1 mg folic acid.

[WildNettle]

I take Blue Ice cod liver oil, Garden of Life Living Multi, use a fair amount of nutritional yeast, and a green drink mix (with spirulina, chlorella, wheat grass, probiotics, etc. It's called Vitamineral Green). Until just this past week I was also taking extra folic acid, 800 mcg/day.

[mamamoo]

I take rainbow light one a days, and a probiotic. I will start taking a red raspberry leaf capsule soon too. I am not a big tea drinker...
I swear the rrl made a huge difference for me. I took it with baby #3, and had very little bleeding after birth, and didn't take(took is sporadically) with baby #4 and bled quite a bit and almost got a pit shot.

I am thinking on some of the other supplements mentioned here now too though...I def. want to get some omega 3's somehow...not sure if any fish oils are safe, anyone know about the nercury conent in those?

[Mindi22]

mamamoo,
I can only speak about Nordic Naturals because I've researched them, and they are purifed so all mercury is out, in fact they excede pharmaceutical grade quality for heavy metal content, peroxides, PCBs, and other contaminants. I think most DHA/EPA suppliments are purifed to some extent these days, but definitely it's worth getting a suppliment that is at least pharmaceutical grade.
-Mindi

[nakagain]

I take Rainbow light 3 times a day.

Last pregnancy I did juice plus and folic acid and my bloodwork was text book perfect and my baby was very pink righ at birh. Juice Plus had acidopholis(sp) and it was my 1st pregnancy I didn't had constipation or hemroids. It was the best.

[kristen1978]

My midwife swears by Nature's Sunshine. I take their PNV (only 1 a day -- yea!), liquid CalMg, and VitC with bioflavinoids. Also, flaxseed oil in my whey protein shake (I'm veg, so I struggle to get my 100 grams of protein otherwise). For non-vegs, Carlson's fish oil is great.

I'm considering a B12 supplement as well, as my HgB was a little lower than usual when I checked it yesterday. B12 is a challenge for vegs to get enough of, and is necessary for iron uptake. Anyone have experience with this?

[momazon4]

kristen1978-just wondering what brand of whey protien you use? I haven't found one that I'm 100% comfortable with all of the ingredients.
Thanks,
Teri

[MamaRabbit]

I'm taking a BarleyGreen supplement. And my DD's kid vitamins from the health food store. 3 different ones: mulit, spirulina/greens, probiotics.

I always end up with really low iron, so I'll be starting blackstrap molasses and Floradix soon.

[srp1984]

Is there a good website or book that will tell me what different vitamins are for? I would like to start taking the right kinds of vitamins for me, I'm currently only take a multivitamin. I used to take two Tums for the calcium everyday, but it started making me throw up after taking them

[pookel]

I'm taking a basic prenatal from Sam's Club. I just remembered hearing that probiotics are supposed to be good in pregnancy, and we have some for my husband's colon problems, so I may start taking those too. I like whey protein shakes and drank a bunch of them in my first pregnancy, but with this one I'm finding it hard to get the time to make them (the blender freaks my toddler out, so I have to get his dad to take him away for a little while).

I should probably stop at the health food store and see if I can find something else that would be good to add to my protein shakes ... any suggestions? Spirulina, wheat grass, something else?