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

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Amanda

At Fri, 31 Jan 2003, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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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.  :)

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