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Exactly Andrea. There is an article in the Journal of Nurse-Midwifery (now
the Journal of Midwifery and Women
That was what I was interested in reading in Odents opinion that suggesting iron supplementation to women with what I would have thought was a low Hb may be contraindicated. If the study he is talking about found that Hb 8.5 - 9.5 resulted in the biggest baby weights why would you need to be conce
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:39:28 +0930
Yes Please Marilyn,
55 Aldinga Rd
Willunga
SA 5172
Thank you,
Liz.
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I can only speak about my own pregnancy but I had consistently "normal" hb but low
serum ferritin levels. The care I was given was to keep an eye on my dietary iron
intake and monitor my hb to make sure it stayed up then to recheck sometime before my
next pregnancy to see if I was always that wa
Andrea wrote:"... there is a widespread belief that this test (hb) can
effectively detect anaemia and iron deficiency."
The latest measure seems to be Ferritin and according to www.ironpanel.com.au this measures
the iron stores in the marrow. Ironpanel says that "ferritin < 15 means
that a p
Yes Please Marilyn,
55 Aldinga Rd
Willunga
SA 5172
Thank you,
Liz.
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Exactly Andrea. There
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] measuring Hb
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All this talk about haemaglobin reminded me about something I
read recently and thought would make a good discussion.I have just
finished reading Michel O'Dent's book 'The Casarean' ( available from Bir
All this talk about haemaglobin reminded me about something I read recently and thought would make a good discussion.
I have just finished reading Michel O'Dent's book 'The Casarean' ( available from Birth International) which was very interesting reading. In it he discusses measuring Hb during p
