PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for January, 2003: Re: Protein? Pre-term delivery with twins-let's not be so quick to judge

Re: Protein? Pre-term delivery with twins-let's not be so quick to judge

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:24:37 -0600 (CST)

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OK, yeah, you're probably right - I had forgotten that she implied protein could prevent all p-t deliveries. That is pretty darned silly. Anyway. Enough about Hope The Childbirth Educator .. who obviously now knows there are people on the lookout for her over-the-top advice.

So I am curious, too- to the original poster, why did your doctor only give you another 4 to 6 weeks? (And, to the original poster, protein can't HURT. You should indeed get 120 gs of protein a day, at least- that's a lot of protein. :) Good luck to you and your twinsies. If you're 25 weeks you've got a good chance of having viable babies. Hold on five more. Breathe deep. And drink raspberry tea (because I have read, many places, that raspberry tea can help the uterus stretch... just a little... and it wasn't a placebo-controlled double-blind statistically significant study... but raspberry is good for pregnant mamas - I am at high risk for pre-term labor myself and I've been drinking a ton of raspberry some days, and I swear, my uterus feels calmer on days after I've been drinking it... of course this is anecdotal, but it isn't going to HURT. :)

At Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Amanda wrote: >
>I agree that telling a pregnant woman to eat protein is good advice. And
>I'll even give her credit for a good summary of how to get more protein
>into your diet.
>
>Telling a woman who is justifiably concerned about the viability of her
>twins at 24.5 weeks that she can prevent early delivery through protein
>consumption is the part I have a problem with. Declaring that every
>pregnant woman carrying twins that she knows has kept them to full term
>by eating protein - now that smacks of quackery to me. So, HOW many
>pregnant women carrying twins has she personally known? And she knows
>for a fact that they delivered full term BECAUSE of protein? And she has
>WHAT factual evidence to support her assertion that protein will enable
>this woman to carry her twins to term? I think it is completely
>irresponsible to imply that protein is the solution to this woman's
>concerns - our "child birth educator" has no access to her medical
>history, no clinical evidence to support her assertion, and is
>completely ignoring the very real mitigating conditions that can affect
>twin pregnancies

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