If you are not healthy and well, if you suffer from allergy, if you already have difficulties getting pregnant, or suspect that you might have accumulated various toxins in your body, it might be a good idea to use at least half a year on detoxifying your body and build a more healthy lifestyle before getting pregnant.
A hair mineral analysis is a good way of deciding if you have accumulated too many harmful heavy metals. It can also uncover other kinds of mineral imbalances.
Less pronounced nutritional deficiencies that do not result in any health problems in the expecting mother, and are therefore not necessarily noticed, can cause serious diseases in the foetus. Dietary supplements clearly cannot solve all pregnancy-related problems, but, for the last many years, they have proven their raison d'être.
Individual needs can differ from the table below and are therefore only meant as a guide. To some people, the dosages mentioned can seem very large but are based on experience from the British Foresight organization that have helped many childless and allergic people give birth to healthy babies. The supplements should be taken in connection with a meal.
- Vitamin A: 5000 - 75000 I.U. (the dosage should not be exceeded. Therefore, you should avoid eating food that contains liver.)
- Vitamin C: 1000 - 1300 mg. (divide the daily dose into two or more portions, e.g. 500 mg. in the morning and in the evening.)
- Vitamin D: 200 - 400 I.U.
- Vitamin E: 200 - 400 I.U. (if you take a single supplement, you should take it in the morning)
- Vitamin K: No recommendations, but vitamin K is particularly important to women who breast-feed. Greens, cabbage, broccoli, and beans contain large amounts of vitamin K.
- Vitamin B1: 20 - 25 mg.
- Vitamin B2: 20 - 25 mg.
- Vitamin B3 (niacin): 20 - 25 mg.
- Vitamin B5: 20 - 25 mg.
- Vitamin B6: 25 - 50 mg. (counteracts puerperal psychosis in combination with zinc)
- Vitamin B9 (folic acid): 400 I.U. Women who have had previous miscarriages, already has a child with spina bifida, and women who themselves (or their partner) have spina bifida are recommended to take 5 mg. of folic acid. Take the supplement in the morning.
- Vitamin B12: 30 - 35 µg.
- Iron: Take 20 ml. of Floradix Kräuterblut a day, 30 minutes before a meal.
- Calcium: 300 mg. (if you take a supplementary single mineral, you should take it in the evening)
- Magnesium: 300 mg. Can prevent nausea, oedema, and pregnancy toxaemia (if you take supplementary single minerals, you should take them in the evening).
- Iodine: 175 µg.
- Zinc: approx. 20 mg. When breast-feeding: 25 mg. (single mineral supplements should be taken in the evening.)
- Selenium: 150 - 200 µg.
- Chromium: 50 - 200 µg. (according to your consumption of sugar - as sugar metabolizes the chromium in your body)
- Omega 3 fatty acids: I.e. fish oil or, alternatively, flaxseed oil. (makes the baby's brain and nerve system mature, and improves its sleep after birth)
Use the multivitamin-mineral tablets that best match the dosages above. If necessary, you can supplement them with single vitamin/mineral tablets.
Vitaviva's recommendations for pregnant women
- Multivitamin-mineral: Multi Vitamin "VitaMom". Dosage: 3-4 tbl. daily
- Fish oil: "Omega 3". Dosage: 2 capsules morning and evening.
- Possibly: Extra iron
You can choose to take 3 or 4 tablets VitaMom daily as needed.
Respectively 3 and (4) tbl. VitaMom gives you
The following number in parentheses indicates the quantity of 4 tablets
- A-vitamin: 3.000 I.U. (4.000 I.U.) Half in the form of natural betacarotene.
- Vitamin C: 750 mg (1.000 mg)
- Vitamin D3: 375 i.e. (500 I.U.)
- Vitamin E: 300 I.U.. (400 I.U.) Mixed natural tocopherols and d alfa tocopheryl.
- Vitamin K: 52,5 µg (70 µg - K1)
- Vitamin B1: 15 mg (20 mg)
- Vitamin B2: 15 mg (20 mg)
- Vitamin B3: 15 mg (20 mg) Both acid and amide
- Vitamin B5: 18,75 mg (25 mg)
- Vitamin B6: 30 mg (40 mg)
- Biotin (Vitamin B8): 112,5 mg (150 µg)
- Folic acid (Vitamin B9): 450 µg (600 µg)
- PABA: 18,75 mg (25 mg)
- Vitamin B12: 26,25 µg (35 µg) Methylcobalamin
- Iron: 20,25 mg (27 mg) Amino chelate
- Calcium: 225 mg (300 mg) Citrate and carbonate
- Magnesium: 225 mg (300 mg) Citrate and ascorbate
- Potassium: 37,5 mg (50 mg) K-citrate
- Iodine: 131,25 µg (175 µg) Kelp
- Zinc: 18,75 mg (25 mg) Picolinate
- Copper: 750 µg (1 mg)
- Manganese: 1,5 mg (2 mg)
- Selenium: 150 µg (200 µg) Se-methionin
- Chromium: 113 µg (150 µg)
- Boron: 750 µg (1 mg)
- Molybdenum: 37,5 µg (50 µg) Amino chelate
- Vanadium: 15 µg (20 µg) Amino chelate
- Trace minerals from sea vegetation: 37,5 µg (50 µg)
- Betain HCl: 37,5 mg (50 mg)
In addition, a daily dose VitaMom contains 75 mg (100 mg) Ginger which promotes the absorption of minerals and counteract nausea and 37.5 mg (50 mg) of the herb Horsetail, which is an organic source of the mineral silicon.
