Message on the answer phone:
“Miss Turner, we’ve had the results of your blood test back and your iron is low. Please ring your doctor to collect some iron tablets.”
How about no. How about stick it up your arse. I’m not going through the stress I went through last time only to be told it was all for nothing. It’s back on the Floradix for me, and if that doesn’t work, baby might find itself born on the sofa.
That’s the last time I let a midwife sweet talk me into having blood tests.
04 May at 6:17 am
Cook with dried herbs (especially Thyme and Parsley) Dark chocolate and liver, if you can drink it Guinness and Newcastle brown are a help to raise your iron count. Failing that just do what I did and avoid blood tests and eat plenty of fresh veg. I don’t see the point in me mentioning that you eat liver – I know how much you hate it.
22 May at 7:36 am
Hey Jem, congrats on the new pregnancy! So we’re once again pregnant at the same time :-p could not find out when you’re due, though, I’m only 7+2 now.
Just wanted to write you tell, that not everybody can decompose iron in the body. I have always (always but when I’m pregnant curiously) low iron, and my mum even very extreme. She cannot decompose iron anymore, so she has to get iron infusions every few months. We both have a porphyria (see google) but I hope (guess) it is another reason for you. But this just means: you can eat kilos of liver or thousands of iron tablets – it won’t help if your body cannot decompose iron. So try getting an infusion (up to 3 or 4) and your iron will be “full” for the next year.