anemic at 37 weeks

My Dr. told me to start taking 300 mg a day of iron. Im so sick and nauseated from them. FE150 twice per day.
I heard anemia causes low birth weight, preterm labor, or possible blood transfusion due to loss of blood at delivery.

Quoting JENN_E:“ My Dr. told me to start taking 300 mg a day of iron. Im so sick and nauseated from them. FE150 twice ... [snip!] ... day. I heard anemia causes low birth weight, preterm labor, or possible blood transfusion due to loss of blood at delivery.”

Im annmic and I never heard any of that.Wow.

I just found out I'm anemic as well (29 weeks). My midwife said to take 30 mg iron a day on top of my prenatals. 300 mg sure seems like a lot!
I'm trying to eat a lot of foods with iron because I think your body absorbs it better than pills--beef, molasses, raisin bran, green leafies, cashews, etc. I tried a liquid iron supplement, but it gave me diarrhea, so I'm switching to a time-release tablet. We'll see how it goes. Good luck to you!

Quoting CenterIce:“ I just found out I'm anemic as well (29 weeks). My midwife said to take 30 mg iron a day on top of my ... [snip!] ... iron supplement, but it gave me diarrhea, so I'm switching to a time-release tablet. We'll see how it goes. Good luck to you!”

salmon is really good too, it's full of iron aloooooot of it i used to donate plasma all the time until i got preggers and they had to check it every time i went in and that is the one thing i ate alot of was fish particularly salmon because of the iron content.