Each week we'll spotlight a new category of product. Feel free to comment on these threads throughout your time at the board, not just during its week in the spotlight, if you discover something new OR are new to the board. This week we're talking.... Vitamins!
FTMs are encouraged to ask questions & STM/+s encouraged to share their knowledge based on experience. You can use any or all the prompts relevant to you below to share info in an easy-to-read format. Pictures/screen grabs, if put in spoilers, are welcome!
For all...
What brand prenatal vitamins are you taking & why?For STMs/STM+s...
Are you taking the same vitamins you have w/ previous pregnancies?
Re: Product Spotlight: Vitamins
When do you guys take your prenatals? I've been taking them in the morning like last pregnancy. Last pregnancy, I had horrible morning sickness and I wondered if it would have been better taking them in the evening.
I’m currently taking them in the morning, but might switch to nighttime at some point. I had minor morning sickness last time and switching to night definitely helped.
ETA: I tried a few others last time, including one called Brain Strong abs some gummies. I just didn’t like them due to either the horse pill size or the taste.
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
Ive also been taking a B complex once a day in the morning. I’m a vegetarian so the extra B12 is good as well as B6 for preventing MS (apparently there are theories about this). So far no MS at all! Also for the extra folate and energy that B vitamins provide!
ive been taking my prenatals and B complex religiously, I had no idea it was good for MS, fingers crossed it keeps the MS away.
A chiropractor actually told me about the B6 deficiency theory and MS. There’s a MS drug commonly prescribed in Canada (diclectin) that’s made up of B6 and an antacid.
She also notices (and there’s apparently studies on this as well) people who have taken PNV pre conception are less likely to have MS. (Due to the B6 stores? )
Garden of life vitamin code raw prenatal and deva vegan omega 3. I am also a vegetarian and get neausea easily so that was important but found that the vegan/vegetarian vitamins rated higher generally anyway.
There is a for profit company that does independent testing of vitamin efficacy, it was really helpful in determining what to buy.
I stocked up at Shoppers Drug Mart
I take the Pink stork Total prenatal + DHA. I also take an additional iron pill and vitamin C. I was anemic a few months before trying to conceive, so went on iron and vitamin C. The doctor told me to just continue to take them, even once my blood count improved (if they didn’t upset my stomach). He thought that once I got pregnant I would become anemic again, so told me to keep on taking them.
Along with prenatals I also take 5,000iu of D3 a day. My midwife prescribed it during my first pregnancy, and I've just been taking them ever since.
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
I take mine at night with a light snack since I read some where that caffeine can interfere with iron absorption.