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anchor I think missrachelk means progesterone supplements. I'm not sure about that but I think if you've told the practice of your history (or they already know it) and they think it's ok regardless, I'd go with that. As far as prenatals go, those companies make a KILLING out of guilting women into taking their expensive "comprehensive" supplements. The evidence only supports the supplementation of folate and iodine, and if the diet is replete in everything else then there are no other routine supplements required. Iron and Vitamin D are most commonly the deficiency/insufficiency issues. Last pregnancy a friend of mine gave me some multivitamin prenatal horse pills that made me feel sicker so my obstetrician told me to just take folate and not worry about the rest, which improved things a lot. This time around the new recommendation here is to supplement iodine also so I just take a combined iodine-folate supplement, vitamin D (as I am frankly deficient), and B6 for the nausea. Last pregnancy my iron stores dropped into my boots by the 3rd tri so I took iron for the last trimester as well.
rachel that's a great HCG result too - hope the doubling time all looks on track!
clairitek - how much does daycare cost where you are? Here it's between $80 and $120 a day, and we receive a government rebate of 50% up to a ceiling rebate of $7500 in a year. Even with that, though, daycare - the cost and availability - is still a significant barrier to women returning to work, especially part-time. Certainly if we didn't have my mum and my MIL to help out, we would be bleeding money for me to do my PhD on my scholarship stipend and it simply wouldn't be financially feasible. My husband will be starting a PhD in August this year so there are some lean years ahead for us, thank goodness for grandparents.
LC your cardiac output increases a heap in early pregnancy, plus your body is more attuned to rises in carbon dioxide in the blood and tolerates less of it compared to when not pregnant, so a bit of shortness of breath is common. I certainly feel the difference when walking briskly up hills or doing a tough workout at Pilates, etc, and I remember trying to walk up steep hills in Croatia in the 2nd trimester last time and just STRUGGLING!!
AFM, going to pick up my prescription for ondansetron from the pharmacy at work today. I've been useless for days - have been planning meals etc all week as usual but have had to abort mission several times as I just cannot cook meat in particular. I have been eating 2 minute noodles and McDonalds for the last 3 days as it's all I can stomach, I did manage to marinate a steak for DH to cook for himself last night though. Ugh.
anchor I think missrachelk means progesterone supplements. I'm not sure about that but I think if you've told the practice of your history (or they already know it) and they think it's ok regardless, I'd go with that. As far as prenatals go, those companies make a KILLING out of guilting women into taking their expensive "comprehensive" supplements. The evidence only supports the supplementation of folate and iodine, and if the diet is replete in everything else then there are no other routine supplements required. Iron and Vitamin D are most commonly the deficiency/insufficiency issues. Last pregnancy a friend of mine gave me some multivitamin prenatal horse pills that made me feel sicker so my obstetrician told me to just take folate and not worry about the rest, which improved things a lot. This time around the new recommendation here is to supplement iodine also so I just take a combined iodine-folate supplement, vitamin D (as I am frankly deficient), and B6 for the nausea. Last pregnancy my iron stores dropped into my boots by the 3rd tri so I took iron for the last trimester as well.
rachel that's a great HCG result too - hope the doubling time all looks on track!
clairitek - how much does daycare cost where you are? Here it's between $80 and $120 a day, and we receive a government rebate of 50% up to a ceiling rebate of $7500 in a year. Even with that, though, daycare - the cost and availability - is still a significant barrier to women returning to work, especially part-time. Certainly if we didn't have my mum and my MIL to help out, we would be bleeding money for me to do my PhD on my scholarship stipend and it simply wouldn't be financially feasible. My husband will be starting a PhD in August this year so there are some lean years ahead for us, thank goodness for grandparents.
LC your cardiac output increases a heap in early pregnancy, plus your body is more attuned to rises in carbon dioxide in the blood and tolerates less of it compared to when not pregnant, so a bit of shortness of breath is common. I certainly feel the difference when walking briskly up hills or doing a tough workout at Pilates, etc, and I remember trying to walk up steep hills in Croatia in the 2nd trimester last time and just STRUGGLING!!
AFM, going to pick up my prescription for ondansetron from the pharmacy at work today. I've been useless for days - have been planning meals etc all week as usual but have had to abort mission several times as I just cannot cook meat in particular. I have been eating 2 minute noodles and McDonalds for the last 3 days as it's all I can stomach, I did manage to marinate a steak for DH to cook for himself last night though. Ugh.