Prenatals & DHA

shyntrue

Do you take a prenatal w/ DHA or both a prenatal and DHA?  Can you rec. your's?  Possible sensitive stomach...

Thanks!! 

 

ELF4321

I'm a vegetarian, so I take a veggie formula prenatal and DHA derived from algae, rather than fish.  Both are ok for my tummy:

https://www.drugstore.com/super-nutrition-simply-one-prenatal-multi-vitaminmineral-supplement-vegetarian-tablets/qxp231606?catid=81115&fromsrch=vegetarian+prenatal

https://www.drugstore.com/deva-vegan-vitamins-vegan-omega-3-dha-softgels/qxp318281?catid=47604&fromsrch=deva+dha

 

mswood1977

I use the GNC Prenatal Program: https://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3359445

 I did a lot of research before picking my prenatal and I love this one.  It includes a separate DHA supplement and a separate calcium supplement.  The actual prenatal vitamin is 2 pills a day, so you can take them at different times to help keep it from upsetting your stomach.  It also has the highest amount of folic acid I have found (1000 mcg).

FyreFlyeRush

Prenatals made me throw up. And, DHA made it worse. I switched to a double dose of Flintstones and my OB okayed me not taking DHA.

hkmum

I take New Chapter Organics Perfect Prenatal. It's a whole food multivitamin that can be taken on an empty stomach.  

For DHA I take MumOmega by Equazen- it's a high grade fish oil. Blech. 

 https://www.newchapter.com/multi-vitamins/perfect-prenatal

 https://www.equazen.co.uk/default.aspx?pid=23&prodgrp=15

 

 

BootsOrHearts

ELF4321:

I'm a vegetarian, so I take a veggie formula prenatal and DHA derived from algae, rather than fish.  Both are ok for my tummy:

https://www.drugstore.com/super-nutrition-simply-one-prenatal-multi-vitaminmineral-supplement-vegetarian-tablets/qxp231606?catid=81115&fromsrch=vegetarian+prenatal

https://www.drugstore.com/deva-vegan-vitamins-vegan-omega-3-dha-softgels/qxp318281?catid=47604&fromsrch=deva+dha

 

 

This. No fishy burps from the vegetarian ones. I don't think I could handle that!  

Irishgypsy88

I've been taking the Nature Made prenatals with DHA for most of my pregnancy.  I had started with the 2 separate pills from One-a-Day, but switched due to cost.  I have them with my breakfast (take them first, then eat) and haven't had any issues with nausea or anything.  I did have m/s throughout my first tri, but it wasn't related to my vitamins.

Once baby is born and I start to BF, I'll fall back on prenatals w/o DHA.

bdunbar

I take vitofol-ob-dha and have no tummy issues or fishy burp with them. I also take 2 grams of lovaza a day which is a rx omega 3 fatty acid with high concentrations of epa/dha.