Alfalfa

Benefits of Alfalfa include:

• Helps ease morning sickness 
• Can increase milk supply
• Powerhouse of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K
• provides eight digestive enzymes

How do fat soluble vitamins promote healthy pregnancies, births and babies?

Vitamin A for mom helps in postpartum tissue repair, maintains normal night vision and strengthens immune function. For the baby, vitamin A assists in bone and eye development, promotes fetal organ development, helps in the formation of epithelial tissue

Vitamin K may decrease postpartum bleeding or chance of hemorrhaging

Vitamin D improves your chances for a vaginal delivery, improves your immune system

Vitamin E may reduce risk of developing Gestational Diabetes and strengthens maternal vein walls. While there are definite benefits to having adequate vitamin D levels, there is no need to overly supplement Vitamin E.

Dose recommended by the Midwives of New Jersey for their clients:

1 capsule a day in the first trimester 

2 capsules a day in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy

3 capsules a day from 36 weeks through duration of breastfeeding