folate, miscarriage, help!
Hello! I’m not so new to this, but i wasn’t sure where else to post. I was swaying pink for 16 weeks, got pregnant, and had to have a D&C at 8 weeks.
I’ve giving myself a week or two (it’s Christmas anyway) to get back on the skipping breakfast, no snacking, Le diet, and decided (with much hesitation) that I won’t do exercise this time (I did before my BFP for about 10 weeks) because I likely will need a sinus surgery in this silver lining timeframe if it fits in before I get pregnant again (waiting til my period to start OPKs and either once at Positive or E4D.) Trying to do a gentler away and taking out anything that really doesn’t fit or feel right.
Anyway, any suggestions on the above are welcome. My main question is, since I can’t help but feel like it’s something I did... I’m stopping prenatal (and also stopping probiotics I was taking) and just doing folate until BFP ... I’m so confused on the folate. I keep researching here and google and I’m just confused. I was taking 1,000 mcg folate (as metafolin) once a day and when I got my BFP I switched totally to prenatal which has 800 mcg folic acid. Then after my miscarriage I thought maybe that was terrible, that switch, and so I read about taking more for post miscarriage and also gradually cutting back to what’s in prenatal at 12 weeks.
So- now- I got another bottle that I thought was 800 mcg folate so I could more easily switch and subtract when I needed to. But it came in the mail from amazon and it’s Solgar, folate 1,333 mcg DFE (metafolin 800 mcg). And that’s where I’m now more confused. What does that even mean- should I take just one a day or two? And, whenever I next get a BFP, do i continue taking that amount on top of my added prenatal and then cut back at 12 weeks? How do I do that with a pill that’s 1,333 mcg folate (800 mcg metafolin) and maybe that I’m only taking once a day? Just by once every other day?
Any help appreciated! Thanks!