That is not great news, what you have gone through. The health of the baby you will have is going to be even better, though.

you have a good, positive attitude. looks like youre going to be blessed with a child at some point.

i just recently read something about a lack of some arsenic being a cause for not carrying little boys to term. anyone else remember that? newport? might have been the orlee audio i listened to.

when you do have a child, (s)he will be brilliant:)
hugs to you:)

I'm so sorry to hear that you miscarried. Keep taking the Iodine and also some natural progesterone cream.

I am so sorry for your loss! Please try to stay positive - you are making great strides! I'm sure it's just a matter of time before you conceive and carry the pregnancy to full term! You are doing a great thing for your body and for your future child!

The issues are :

1) on the one hand, the official RDA of Iodine was proposed around 1980 to be at 150 micrograms per day.

2) On the other hand, each slice of bread back around 1960 had about 150 micrograms in it, and there are a bunch of doctors with evidence that the body' needs much more than 150 micrograms per day, more like 30-50 milligrams.

3) Nevertheless lots of folks have had healthy babies with no Iodine supplementation.

4) We know that Iodine causes the body's own detoxification mechanisms to be more efficient.

If I were in your situation, I'd make sure I had three nice cycles prior to conceiving. Then I'd go light on the Lugol's, like perhaps 2-3 drops per week.

One quesiton which would need to be answered is, just how much is appropriate to ingest during pregnancy. I have no experience in this, but based on all of what I've read my gut feeling is that the best answer resides somewhere between the 30-50 milligrams recommended by Dr. Abraham's coterie, and the 1980 RDA of 150 micrograms per day. If it were me, I would likely take just one or two drops of Lugols per week while pregnant. More like one drop per week, all while avoiding all of the poisons in modern foods. That way, I would be getting more iodine than the base amount, but not too much.

Then again, what is too much ? We've never heard of "iodine babies", i.e., babies whose mothers took too much iodine while they were pregnant. It could be that iodine babies are geniuses, or it could be that nobody has yet identified excess iodine as the cause of some birth defect which exists. Personally, given that bread contained 150 micrograms per slice in the 60's, I'd ask my self how many slices of bread a typical pregnant woman would eat in a week back then. If she ate one sandwich per day, that would be about 2 milligrams per week of iodine, which is about a third of a drop of Lugols. If she ate the equivalent of six slices of bread per day, then she would have eaten the equivalent of one drop of Lugol's per week.

You've got to sort these issues out for yourself.

If it were me, I'd clean myself out real good for about three cycles, then give it a little rest of about a month and then go at conceiving. At that point, it should be easy, provided you've eliminated all other dietary poisons.

Have you and your partner also done Dr Christopher's pregnancy preparations too? PB

I'm so sorry you miscarried. We've dealt with infertility for 15 years, and in all those years, I don't believe I ever became pregnant.

As someone else recommended, Dr. Lee's materials are very informative, especially for understanding how hormones work together. I've used progesterone cream (I have PCOS), and it helped me to have regular cycles, but didn't aid ovulation.

Are you taking essential fatty acids? Like iodine, they help with hormone receptors, as well as many other things.

(((hugs to you)))

--phoebe

Thanks to all who responded.

Let me tell you more about my history and what I've been doing. I am 44 and have six children ranging in age from 22 to 4 who are healthy and smart (although one has Asperger Syndrome, others undiagnosed AS and some have mild ADD). I've never had a problem getting pregnant until we started trying again. The first 5 were from a previous marriage. My husband and I married six years ago and had a child pretty much right away (you might say it was an accident, although we wanted one but not yet). My husband would like more children if possible.

I kept putting off having a second one with me thinking I should improve my health a bit although there was nothing major wrong with me. My periods were getting irregular and long and I felt I was going into pre-menopause. I went on a raw milk diet(milk only) for 4 weeks. My periods got more regular. I got my Amalgams and three root-canal teeth taken out (turns out they were infected and rotten), as well as a lot of crowns put on ($$$$!). I got them removed the correct way but I think my infertility problems arose from the Amalgam removal.

I did have a spiritual experience about two ago (before I had all that dental work done) which told me the Lord wanted me to have more children. So when we did start trying after the work was done I was greatly surprised when I miscarried. After that we had a hard time conceiving and if we did conceive I would miscarry.

I tried progesterone cream (which seemed to make my cycles worse), vitex (may have helped a little but then made my cycles worse), prenatal vitamins (also had red raspberry leaf in it as well as other herbs. I've done a couple oxy-cleanses and taken hydrogen peroxide baths. I've done special breathing exercises that a woman from India taught me who was taught by a Guru. I also drank lots of water and celtic salt. I make my own bread from wheat that I grind fresh and drink raw milk, albeit not very much.

We came to a point that we stopped trying to get pregnant but didn't do anything to prevent a child from coming, although I still did track my temperature and occationally felt my cervix to tell where I was in a cycle. I stopped expecting to get pregnant and just took it for granted that I wouldn't get pregnant.

About a month ago after crying and pouring out my heart in prayer, I told myself to calm down so that I could hear the whisperings of the spirit. I then changed how I prayed and asked, "Where can I go to find ore to make tools to make this great ship that thou has commanded me to build?" (based on a scriptural story) I felt that that wording applied to my situation. Immediately something I had read about Iodine on a forum I am on came to my mind. I asked if I should be taking Iodine and my body lit up. Yes. I researched Iodine and was amazed at all it could do and how it could help my infertility. I bought some and started taking it the next day, which was 3 or 4 days after I had ovulated. Of course you know that I did get pregnant and miscarried. I was a little sad but I did want to wait a little a get the child off to a good start. I feel that iodine will help me. I know it helps my temperature to go up and I feel that that will help.

Along with the Lugol's, I am taking selenium, magnesium, Vitamin C, the no flush-niacin and salt loading.

I don't feel that I have the time to wait a long time before conceiving again, given my age. I have lots of progesterone cream and can try that after conceiving but am wary of it. I can't afford to eat all organic but I as much as I can.

Thanks again for all your help. I had to take some time before I could reply.


EDIT: My memory is poor. The pre-menopause like cycle was due to the milk diet. I was having trouble conceiving after this and before the dental work.

EDITED AGAIN: I remembered that before that milk diet I followed a raw food diet for about 2 months and it really screwed up my cycles and it was the milk diet that normalized it!