Dr Mom
Stay excited about this wonderful event in your life and don't allow your bad days to get you discouraged. You're doing GREAT, so a few days or even weeks off of your supplements are not going to hurt you or the baby. Stay focused on eating and drinking fresh, healthy live foods several times throughout the day, which will keep providing the live enzymes you both need.
As far as helping with the nausea - different tricks work for different people - here are a few you might want to try:
- sip on your red raspberry tea throughout the day to keep something on your stomach and help to calm the nausea
- if red raspberry is not helping - try making the nausea tea - 1 tsp. of cloves, 1 tsp turkey rhubarb powder, 1 tsp cinnamon, & 1 oz of spearmint - Simmer the first 3 herbs in 1 pint of water for 5 min; pour this decoction over the spearmint; put lid on tightly and let infuse until cool; strain. Take 2 Tbsp to 1/4 cup full every 1/2 hour until nausea subsides.
- sometimes women are making too much bile which causes nausea - in these cases, the liver/gallbladder formula will help
- many women have benefited from taking a B-complex supplement - other good sources of B vitamins would be leafy greens, sprouts, especially alfalfa sprouts and wheatgrass - you will also find B complex in fresh pineapple juice and fresh carrot juice
You have an increased influx of hormones and greater metabolic demands on your system right now. As your blood volume increases, it will help dilute the high volumes of hormones which usually helps to decrease the feelings of nausea. This is good news because as the baby makes greater demands on your system, you will be feeling better and more able to handle the supplements to provide both of you with what you need.
The best advise I can give you right now is to stay positive, relax and give yourself a little more time to get through this first trimester.