Taking enough vitamin C during pregnancy has may benefits.
It's an easy and cost-effective therapy to support healthy pregnancies and babies. Thousands of women have used vitamin C in pregnancy. And it’s very safe.
My wife is one of these women. Our third baby born in December 2019 is a “vitamin C baby”.
In this blog post, you can find our story and all the important information we found during our research.
Vitamin C During Pregnancy helps support healthy pregnancies and babies
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Important: Ascorbic acid or vitamin C ismore than a vitamin. Why? It regulates many functions in your body to make sure they're doing their best job in keeping you healthy!
The recommended daily allowance for pregnant and lactating women are set by the Food and Nutrition Board. As of January 2020, it’s set to 85 milligrams per day for females 19+ years. For nonpregnant females is 75 milligrams.
There’s a difference of only 10 milligrams per day to deal with the stress associated with pregnancy. This includes a developing baby, labor, milk production and recovery.
In the first 6 months of life, an infant demands about 40 milligrams of ascorbic acid per day. This extra load leaves the mother with 45 milligrams for her own body needs.
The question is, Is this amount enough for both the mother and the developing baby?
Here are some important considerations about pregnancy, oxidative stress, and vitamin C.
Oxidative stress causes disease symptoms
Pregnancy is not a disease, but it does increase oxidative stress
Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, prevents oxidative stress damage. It's one of the main benefits of taking enough.
Ascorbic acid is vitamin C, but ascorbic acid is more than a vitamin. Each person needs it in varying amounts, often much larger than recommended amounts
Ascorbic acid is not toxic
Ascorbic acid does not deplete the body from other nutrients. It enhances how the body absorbs and uses other nutrients.
Also, here are some considerations about pregnancy in animals and Vitamin C
Most animals make enough vitamin C to fight oxidative stress and disease symptoms
Humans and most primates can’t make vitamin C
Humans can supplement with enough ascorbic acid to prevent oxidative stress. And also stop disease symptoms quicker and safer.
Pregnant mammals such as rats, produce more ascorbic acid to fight stress
Early in pregnancy, guinea pigs on a diet low in vitamin C led to abortion or absorption of the fetuses. Low vitamin C in the latter part of pregnancy caused stillbirths or premature, weak babies. You can find this in studies as early as 1915.
But how do animals make vitamin C? It turns out they convert glucose (blood sugar) to ascorbic acid. This is part of a process involves 4 enzymes.
And why can’t humans make vitamin C? The reason is that humans are missing one of these enzymes.
American Biochemist Irwin Stone dedicated 40 years to research ascorbic acid.
Stone wrote an amazing little book called The Healing Factor. Here he provides evidence of how vitamin C influences sexual activity and fertility.
This means that enough vitamin C may help with conception.
That’s right! Enough vitamin C means more sperm production and mobility. Here's the study from the University of Texas.
In the same book, there's a list of other studies with female mammals like guinea pigs.
It shows low vitamin C levels interfere with the female reproductive cycle. In fact, low vitamin C also causes male guinea pigs to lose their ability to get females pregnant.
The following is also reported
Ascorbic acid is important in the ripening of the human egg
Vitamin C injections on animals result in an increased probability of pregnancy. Studies in 1963 with cows show this.
Here's another interesting thing.
As far back as 1940, scientists proposed to use ascorbic acid to find ovulation times.
That's right! Ovulation tests using ascorbic acid! This measures different levels of vitamin C in the urine. And a low vitamin C level would signal the time of ovulation.
Vitamin C during pregnancy is very safe. We know because we’ve used it during our own pregnancy. And also because there have been several studies that prove it.
For example, in 1971, Dr. Klenner used high dose vitamin C in over 300 human pregnancies. He used anywhere between 4 grams and 15 grams daily.
Here are the doses of vitamin C that Dr. Klenner used for the patients:
4 grams daily in the first trimester
6 grams daily in the second trimester
10 grams daily in the third trimester
He noted that 20 percent of the patients required 15 grams daily in the third trimester.
Also, on admission to the hospital, 80 percent of the patients received 10 grams of ascorbic acid intravenously.
Keep reading to find the results of this amazing study.
But first, here are some studies on vitamin C during pregnancy.
This study shows how vitamin c can prevent Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM)
And there's another study of over 2,000 women. It found an increased frequency of premature births in mothers with the lowest levels of ascorbic acid. It also reported brain development defects caused by vitamin C deficiency.
In short, after two successful pregnancies, my wife developed postpartum preeclampsia. After two succesful pregnancies, we lost two babies to high blood pressure at 3-4 months.
This was despite the best efforts of my wife's doctor. Also, at the time, I had not done a lot of research on vitamin C during pregnancy.
Then I learned about the research work of Irwing Stone and Dr. Klenner's study on 300 pregnancies. And my wife and I decided to follow the advice.
We have the first-hand experience of all the benefits of vitamin C during pregnancy. Everything that Dr. Klenner reported is accurate based on our own experience.
This is a question that only you can answer after you draw your own conclusions.
Here’s a summary of the benefits of taking enough vitamin C during pregnancy.
Increase fertility
Prevent miscarriages and stillbirths
Strengthen amniotic sac to prevent premature births
Prevent hemorrhaging
Prevent gestational diabetes
Prevent other pregnancy complications (e.g. heart disease)
An average dose per day for pregnancy according to Dr. Klenner's recommendation is:
1st trimester is 4 grams
2nd trimester is 6 grams
3rd trimester is 10 grams
If you find you're pregnant and are currently taking a certain dose per day it's a good idea to continue the dose and break doses up throughout the day. Example: 1-2 grams every hour.
Our last pregnancy was a vitamin C pregnancy. Here you can find our story and how enough vitamin C helped mom and bay before, during and after pregnancy.
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