At 34 weeks my baby should be a bit under 20 inches long and about 5 pounds!! It feels like she has dropped but I still feel her up high so I really dont know just yet! Right now baby is needing a lot of calcium for their bones so I am being ver careful to drink lots of skim milk, eat yogurt and take my prenatals. I also felt like I was feeling low on iron. My muscles felt really fatigued and I was very tired. So I have been really conscious of getting enough iron. One easy way is iron fortified cereal but through this whole pregnancy eating cereal with milk has made me sick so I started mixing my cereal with yogurt. Grape Nuts has 90% daily recommended intake of iron in 3/4ths of a cup and Raisen Bran has 100% in one cup so those are my two cereals of choice. I kept up with my prenatal vitamins and ate at least one serving of cereal a day and upped my red meat with a vitamin C source and within a week or so I was feeling MUCH better. I tried to make sure I got iron not only from my prenatal vitamins but from a meat source and a grain source. The meat source is most readily absorbable followed by the grain source and then lastly the least efficiently absorbed source is from the supplement. Many pregnant women who are low on iron are prescribed a huge iron pill but unfortunatly most of that goes through the body unabsorbed, so that is why I didnt just pop a few extra pills a day. Eating the right foods are not only more efficient in increasing my iron levels but is far more tastey!

Posted by Shelley in Journal, Pregnancy diet on December 4th, 2007 |