So here I am at 17 weeks. The belly is definitely getting more prominent. I even went and bought some maternity pants! My dress pants were getting a little tight. We had our 15 week screenings for potential genetic problems with the baby and they all came back negative, so that was good news. The only thing they had to say about my blood work was that my iron was at 32.5 and they wanted it at 35. So I'm trying to down extra iron in my diet!
Hey, did you know that Popeye was crazy about spinach because of a misplaced decimal point when calculating the amount of iron in spinach? Originally he didn't eat spinach )or anything) to get his super-strength, but when meat got scarce during WWII the gov't asked Popeye's creators to push spinach as, among other things, a meat substitute. And they pushed spinach specifically because they thought spinach had 10x the amount of iron that it actually does.
ReplyDeleteIt was wildly successful at the time, hard to imagine as that might be :)
Good luck with upping your iron.
You look GREAT!
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