Low Iron

Hi all....Has anyone had low iron during pregnancy? this is my second labs and still showing I'm anemic...I did a new order today for the iron vitamin from the Bariatric Advantage page and instead of 18mg I will be taking 29mg...has anyone taken more then this... have you done anything else? does this affects the baby? any help or comment will be appreciated...Thanks

 I am anemic as well. I can't seem to get my iron up. I take a prenatal with Iron, a multi, and 325 mg of iron per day. They want me to continue what I am doing... and when I can to take double the iron dosage. The problem is they with iron you need to take it seperate from everything else or it won't be absorbed well, so I don't have enough hours in the day to double it and separate it from all my other ones... Oh and iron is best absorbed with Vitamin C.. so either take a VIt C supplement or drink it with O.J!

 I was anemic before the surgery and now I just don't absorb it from the pills.  I have had to get iron infusions for the last 4-5 years and just did two this year at the end of my second trimester.

I ended up anemic during the last trimester adn they started me on something called Vitron-C..it is high potency iron with vit c (you need vit c to absorb the iron..) Now that I had the baby 3 weeks ago, I am even more anemic..my H and H is 20 and 6 adn every nurse I work with says I need a transfusion, but they increased my vitron c to 3x a day...