Pregnant with twins

Brighid, I think it is doable if you eat calcium products with foods rich in C vitamin, oranges.... which she likes....She says I should be the one giving birth because I love cottage cheese and sour cream and stuff, and she never quite liked them even before her pregnancy.

Thanks for that advice. She just started taking magnesium+b6+e as a one supplement so the doc will prolly mention that if and when she decides to take a calcium supplement. And yes, we decided to stay away from fish, we have no pond to carry our own fish and we don't want to risk eating contaminated fish.

 

Today my wife had an appointment with her docs and all is well, except her hemoglobin level is now down to 10.5 from a previous level of 12 about 8 weeks ago. An ultrasound scan showed that both of the twins have their heads on the SAME SIDE, breach[edit] and on the same side, both heads facing her stomach (posterior)which according to the doc is not the most favorable placement....He suggested another scan in a month's time....Has any of you been through this, twin mamas? Heads on the same side? and what have you done/eaten to boost your hemo level? The doc didn't prescribe any medication at this point.(my wife's roughly 18 weeks now)....On my suggestion, being so concerned about her calcium levels (she doesn't eat diary), the doc also recommended grinded eggshell for her calcium. He didn't prescribe calcium supplements at this point either. O, yeah, they are a boy and a girl

 

Awww, congrats on finding out that they are boy and girl twins! That's what mine are too. You'll love it!


As far as the hemoglobin goes, I'm not really familiar with how that would affect things, if at all? Did the doctor say anything about retesting anytime soon?


Calcium-wise, here are some foods she could try...

Dried figs

Total cereal

Calcium-fortified orange juice

Collards,

Tofu, raw, firm

Kale

Navel oranges

Raisins, golden, seedless

Broccoli

Brussels sprouts

Chick peas

Kidney beans

Great Northern beans

Vegetarian baked beans

Azuki beans

Baked beans

Butter beans

Lima beans

Navy beans

Pinto beans

White beans

Acorn squash

Beet Greens

Blackeyed peas

Green cabbage

Carrots

Chinses cabbage chinese

Kelp

Papaya

Rhubarb

Molasses as a sweetener


And it's still pretty early yet so don't worry about the position the babies are currently in. There's still time for them to move about and change positions!

 

I know! Thanks soo much! Nope, didn't say anything about resting yet. Sorry, they aren't heads down, they are breach, actually[edited]. Hemo levels are very important, anything below 11 is considred anemic as far as I've read...Thanks for the list of calcium containing foods!

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

 

She's only 18 weeks, most, if not all, babies are breech at 18 weeks. They're simply not heavy enough to go head down. Also, right about now, her blood volume has just expanded to nearly twice the amount. The low hemoglobin in mid-pregnancy is norma hemodilution. how does she feel? Is she tired, pale, listless? I normally don't repeat hemoglobin until about 28 weeks, because it's going to be lower than normal, especially if she's had a nice hemo level at the initial.
honeslty, I think your doc is trying to set you up for a highly medical pregnancy and birth.

Breech at 18 weeks = NORMAL

Low hemoglobin at 18 weeks = NORMAL

Baby(s) facing posterior at 18 weeks = NORMAL

 

Thank you Brighid! Nope, she's not tired or listless, she's quite energetic though somewhat pale relative to how she looked before. Just a couple of days ago she stopped an almost forced intake of diary products and she stopped puking ever since but over the past two weeks she would puke daily or sometimes twice a day. She now stopped consuming milk products (incl. cheese, to which she also seems intolerant) and she never vomited since. I guess that also brought her hemoglobin down. But thank you, you've been quite reassuring regarding hemoglobin. I also suspected that breech at 18mo is normal and that the ultrasound doc mentioned that to get her scanned one more time pretty soon and be paid, but that's another doc. Her another main doc, not the ultrasaound one, actually doesn't encourage her to take medications or undergo extra ultrasound examinations, but you are right he seems to view c-sections very favorably and says that in twin pregnancies it is highly "likely".
PS. actually I myself checked the scan reports and the boy, the lower twin, is on quite a diagonal, not quite breach. I would love to get her hemo back up to at least 11..

 

Hi!

My wife's hemoglobin is now down to 10.3. Her doc prescribed Galfer Fa (Galfer FA®(Thornton & Ross) and the description says that " Preventing iron and folic acid deficiency in pregnancy..This medicine is recommended and safe to take during pregnancy" its an iron supplement, two tablets per day. I however noticed that each tablet contains 100mg iron along with follic acid (ok dosage) and I know that for pregnant women the daily iron intake should be around 20mg. Is this too much iron--like 10 times as much?

For calcium (she doesn't eat much calcium containing diary products, if any) VITRUM CALCIUM + VITAMIN D3 (UNIPHARM) based on calcium extraction from oyster shells plus some D3...it contains 500mg calcium (1200mg is necessary for pregnant women), one tablet per day. Is this enough?

Have you taken such supplements and what do you think of them? (My wife is 22 weeks pregnant with twins).

Thanks!!