TTC boy with EPO but w/o fish oil

[Jhaukmom]

Hi,
So long Story short, I have conceived both my pregnancies the first month I took epo. Both took 6 months of trying with opk's before becoming pregnant. I have a daughter and just experienced a miscarriage after trying to sway blue.
My issue is I want to sway blue again soon and I want to take epo again since it works so well for me but I believe the fish oil may have been to blame for my miscarriage. I pretty much stopped taking it around the same time the miscarriage happend. I do not want to take fish oil this time just in case it was the cause. so, Is it possible to only take epo without the fish oil and just try to eat more foods with high omega 3's rather than taking the fish oil? Or is that too risky to get another girl?
I also am starting on the HE diet again as well.
Please help!!
Thanks!

[Throwaway_panther]

I don't mean to sound callous, but in what way do you think fish oil could have caused your miscarriage? Do you have an allergy? Or do you mean stopping it cold turkey is why you think you had a miscarriage?

Fish oil is a big thing for fertility, period, and is generally even safe to take all through pregnancy (provided it's from a quality source). Even stopping it cold turkey wouldn't have likely caused anything -- generally miscarriages just happen regardless of anything we're doing. I am very sorry for your loss, but know that it wasn't anything you did to cause it, truly.

I'd also add, why do you think it's only the EPO contributing to you getting pregnant? Granted, EPO is just fine, too, but those are big things to lay all of a pregnancy and a miscarriage's responsibility on -- it's very likely coincidental, especially since 6 months of TTC before falling pregnant is pretty average.

If you were deadset against fish oil but would want to include more Omega-3s, avoid flax and stick to grass-fed meat and butter, and look for certain eggs which have more Omega-3s.

[Jhaukmom]

I read on this site that fish oil needed to be taken throughout first trimester then slowly weaned down/off once into second trimester. While your post does make me feel a little less guilty that stopping cold turkey may have been the cause. I would still just rather stick with prenatals for my supplements once I become pregnant again.
Of course I know EPO could've been a coincidence for conceiving both times once I started but I just don't want to waste any time. I'm just looking for some other options for my blue sway that include EPO and eliminate fish oil.
Any advice is appreciated!

[Throwaway_panther]

Fish oil, of all supplements, really wouldn't be the cause of a miscarriage even if you stopped cold turkey. It's not a vitamin, remember, it's literally fat.

If you still want to avoid it but keep on with the EPOs, I'd say do what I did: up your intake of Omega-3 enriched eggs, grass fed meats and butter, grass fed dairy. If you feel comfortable with it, include some form of fatty fish low in mercury in your diet where you're not getting higher concentrations of fish oil -- so a 4 oz piece of salmon or trout once or twice a week, for example. They carry very specifically trace to untraceable amounts of mercury because of their lifecycles and where they swim.

I just looked it up, and apparently walnuts are a decent source of Omega 3s, which is interesting to me as I always thought they were predominantly Omega 6.

[atomic sagebrush]

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