I'm confuse!! Prenatal Vitamins, DHA, EPA

HeatherO · November 13, 2008

I have been going fish crazy lately as well. I had tuna for lunch, tilapia yesterday for dinner, salmon over the weekend. I don't even usually like fish that much but I am certainly craving it now.

I have even had a hankering for sushi lately because I know that I can tolerate small amounts of rice which I couldn't have for the longest time. I have heard that pregnant people should never eat sushi . . . is that true? If it is something like smoked salmon with a little cream cheese and avocado, is that OK?

However, I absolutely, positively can not tolerate fish oil burps . . . makes me nauseous and grouchy all day.

Daisalana · November 14, 2008

Raw sushi is not OK, don't eat it during pregnancy.

I got a flyer about it, I think it's either a bacteria or food poisoning thing. I forget now, cause I don't eat raw sushi. I eat the cooked rolls like california roll or crunchy shrimp roll, etc.

HeatherO · November 18, 2008

I saw my OB yesterday and she said I didn't need prenatals, what I was doing was sufficient. I am taking chewable Spectravite orange flavored multi-Vitamins from CVS pharmacy and a Folic Acid supplement from Walmart (the pills are teeny-tiny, like baby aspirin). Total Folic Acid is 800 between the two sources - she said she wanted me taking 800-1000, but when we discussed my diet (lots of healthy Proteins, veggies and dairy products) she said I was in great shape.

The first OB appointment was interesting with the ultrasound. My husband was with me during the whole appointment, and was definitely squirmy when she was doing the physical examination . . . staring at an interesting spot on the ceiling, lol. The doctor asked me if I was working out three times a week . . . I said yes. Well, that was true until about two weeks ago when I had started getting too darn tired to make a decent supper or sometimes get up up off the couch after working all day, lol. When she walked out of the room, he said "Hmm, three days a week???" I almost pelted him with a magazine, lol. Anyways, I am off on a tangent.

Raw sushi is not OK, don't eat it during pregnancy.
I got a flyer about it, I think it's either a bacteria or food poisoning thing. I forget now, cause I don't eat raw sushi. I eat the cooked rolls like california roll or crunchy shrimp roll, etc.

I only eat the cooked rolls too. There is just something about sushi and soy sauce that seems to make a really light, healthy and enjoyable lunch.

I took a Japanese class some years ago and we went to a Japanese restaurant as a group. I tried Octopus sushi, which wasn't cooked, and I didn't realize what it was until I had tried it and noticed the sucker from a tentacle on another one. It didn't want to go down, and I was much too polite to spit it in a napkin, so I had to grin and swallow . . . . yuuuccckkkk. I vowed to never eat uncooked sushi again, expecially any form of Octopus sushi.