pregnancy and poppy seeds?

Q. hi everybody ! ! !
i have a question that i hope someone out here can answer me!! andhonestly too.
my sister is pregnant with her second child. she is 7 months along. the pregnancy is going smoothly thusfar. she is due to deliver september 16.
she has a 2 yr old little boy now. she delivered him vaginally and all went well with that pregnancy. the only thing with that pregnancy was she delivered him almost 2 months premature.
he seems to be dong ok though.
the question i have for everyone is - - -
her mother in law told her not to eat poppy seeds or things that had poppy seeds in them.
why is she not allowed to have poppy seeds while being pregnant?
what are the health factors here?
we want this to be a healthy and safe pregnancy for her as well as the first one.
if you reply to me, please enclose where you found your information. i dont want any b.s. answers such as..."because i know or im a nurse..."
lets be serious! this is my niece and sister were talking about.
thanks!

Answer
If she takes a drug screen it will show up as an opiate. It's not significant. I have never heard of anyone with any medical training saying that there was a danger.

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Anemia during pregnancy? (taking iron pills?)?

Brittni

Hi, I am a little over 24 weeks pregnant, and I just got a call from my OB today saying the blood work I just had done came back saying my iron levels were low. So I have to take Iron pills for the rest of my pregnancy. I just got them today, and have not taken one yet because the pharmacist said to take them on an empty stomach and I ate around 7:30pm so Im gonna take it about 11:00. I am wondering though how long after taking the iron pill do I need to wait before I can eat? I don't want to eat too soon and have it defeat the perpose of taking it on an empty stomach.
Will they start to check my iron levels often to see if they are still low?

Answer
I have a tendency to have low iron levels too even before the pregnancy. They should've told you to take 325 mg of ferrous sulfate (or iron chelate if constipation gets really bad). What i do is take one Vitamin C capsule with Bioflavonoids (50 to 100mg) with it so the iron can be absorbed in its entirety. The bioflavonoids are really important since it makes a vitamin C complete, otherwise you're not getting a high quality vitamin C. Dont take it with orange juice... it's all sugar and you dont get as much vitamin C from it as people would have you believe.

I take it one hour after eating something, then i wait another hour to wait for my body to absorb it. If you take it with food, there's other nutrients that might stop the iron from getting absorbed, specially if it's something that has calcium in it. These two fight to get absorbed by the body so whichever the body decides needs the most of at the time will get absorbed, and really, you dont want that if you need both.

I'm in tune with my body, so i cant tell you how often to take the iron. I started once every other day during the first trimester. Then around the middle of my second trimester, i took it for two days then wouldnt take it the 3rd day. By the third trimester i did take it every day but every once in a while i'd have a "day off". Again, that's what I did... not telling you to do that, specially if your doctor told you to take it every day. I'm just THAT in tune with my body. Oddly enough, every time i had a CBC done, my specialist would agree with me and even be amazed with how well i know my body.

EDIT: They should. If not, ask them to perform a CBC two months after you started taking the iron. Supposedly having a score of 11 is ok but that's still on the low side for some doctors.

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