Answer: Hi Margie,
I am assuming you aren’t vegetarian or haven’t been a long term vegetarian in the past.
The Pregnancy and B`feeding formula have quite low and safe levels of iron, but if I would just make a quick call to your OB to double check because you don’t want to accumulate iron in your body.

As you have caught it nice and early I am sure baby is going just fine, they gather iron in utero as the grow and develop so as I am sure you OB has said to things are likely to be just fine. Don’t forget you may be low (now) and may not always have been and also it doesn’t necessarily mean baby is low in iron. Keep those positive thoughts in the fore… Other tips that come to mind would include:

• Eating vitamin C containing foods with each meal
• Ensure you are eating protein at each meal (perhaps ask a health expert about some plant based enzymes for digestion of nutrients such as protein given you aren’t anaemia). Protein makes hydrochloric acid for the tummy to digest protein and protein is important for hemoglobin production – so you can see the link.
• Check any medications you may be taking at all that may cause slight intestinal bleeding
• and obviously eat foods rice in iron, preferentially those rich in heme-iron such as meat

This site has some handy info on food source that are rich in iron.

I have a tip sheet on my web site, its about vegetarian kids but it does cover a little bit on iron so it might be worth a read also. Hope that helps and that things come back into range by your next blood test Cheery oh, Leanne.