50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

Money_saving_Diva_2

Bashful, sorry hon, I didn't mean to put my message in the middle of your news, I hadn't read up that far before posting.

Just want to say that I have been there and to send you a big hug and as ISOM said, people do underestimate the grieving that you need to do after a miscarriage.

Good luck for the future.

Diva.x

meanmarie

Bashful...so sorry to hear your news, you need time to grieve and your body needs time to recover, allow for that and don't do any guilt trip on yourself, you are not at fault in any way. Do you have a sympathetic doctor you could discuss your anxieties with?

Extra vitamins etc, taken with care should at worst do no harm, but be careful with selection, as I know that some things should not be taken by women who are either pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

Many hugs

Marie

Sian_the_Green

Bashful, I'm so sorry to hear your news. I hope you're not thinking it is something you have/haven't done because that is so unlikely, vitamins or no vitamins.
I think the best advice on them is to eat from all colours of the rainbow, the problem being the bluey/purpley ones when it comes to budgeting, maybe buy now when they are cheaper and freeze or look for tinned /frozen fruit for the winter.
Hope you're getting some chance to look after yourself too x

LittleBrownFrog

Bashful ... huge hugs to you ... will be thinking of you.

BigMummaF

I think it's Folic Acid you need to be having a good dollop of if considering a pregnancy, but it's such a long time ago that I had my babies....I too had a miscarriage, & thankfully someone had the sense to warn my folks that the terminology used on the admittance sheet in the hospital was a technical term. Let's just say that it would have caused a lot of questions & mistrust had they not known....

Back to business! I was reading in one of the daily papers yesterday, that it's best to keep butternut squash wrapped in paper & somewhere cool & dark as the fridge casues them to deteriorate Apparently they can last intact for up to 3 MONTHS.....

naturally_2

Bashful - so sorry to hear that.

If you have a look on Weezl's old thread (links on page 1 of this one) she talks about the nutritional values from the frugal stuff she eats - so you can probably work out from that and what somebody else recommends for pregnancy how much of what you need IYKWIM.

Plum_Pie

Bashful, big hugs to you.

BigMummaF,
My mum grows butternut squash and she stores them on newspapers (but not covered) on a shelf next to a window in an (unheated) loft. They keep for ages - I've eaten ones which have been six months old! They can get a bit woody though - I usually use the older ones for soup.

dorry_2

bashfull--

we lost a little girl at 5 months, so I can empathise. with me it was a low lying placenta, it happens to 1 in very 250 pregnancies.

I have read somewhere that drinking coffee, whilst pregnant can make u more at risk of misscarriage, so i would definetely avoid coffee and anything with caffiene it it, coke, chocolate, tea etc...

hth xxxxxxxxxx

Yategirl

Just catching up with thread.


!!!!!!!!{HUGS}}}}} Bashfull, sorry to hear your news

BASHFUL_2

Hi all thanks everyone. I am OK, I just genuinely wanted some advise on what foods I could introduce to our diet so we are getting them all. I did cut out tea and coffee when I was pregnant both times, and I don't drink coke or anything, so it is just more vitamins into our meals that I want to do. I have been taking pre natal vitamins since I lost the last baby at in December, which are folic acid and all other vits apart from vitamin A which is bad for pregnant women and an omega 3 capsule. I know milk is good for calcium, meat is good for protein, cereals and wholemeal bread for fibre, pumpkin and carrots for beta cerateine, bananas for pottassium, oranges for vit c!!!! Does anyone know what lentils are good for??? I might start using pulses in my meals. Thanks again everyone. Going to start looking for a xmas temp job now, as havent been back to work since previous miscarriage....scary! Any tips on explaining why I have been out of work for so long!!!! Thanks again everyone, and I will look at that page of Weezl's for advise :-)

Hope you're all having frugal weeks x x x