vitamin question

Re: vitamin question

• brsfc7

  January 2013

  just thought of a couple more questions. do i need an extra DHA supplement? and this next one is a dumb question...i've heard too much of certain vitamins are bad for the baby. is there a chance of having too much of a certain vitamin when you combine the multivitamin & food that has that vitamin in it? lol =/ so confused & i just want to do everything i can to have a healthy pregnancy

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• Habs2Hart member

  January 2013

  Red raspberry leaves in large quantities in the first trimester can be harmful, but in small quantities is is very beneficial.  It is great for morning sickness.  It is most beneficial in third trimester in terms of birthing.  Look up "Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year".  It is an excellent book at talks in great detail about raspberry leaf, nettle leaf and any other wild leaf that can be beneficial.  

   ETA:  I use Vitamin Code Raw Prenatal vitamins and I really like them.  I got them shipped off amazon as it was the best price I found.   

  
  

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• mb314 member

  January 2013

  I use the Nature's Made brand with DHA.  My midwife suggested that I get vitamins with DHA added.  I am now nursing, but have been taking Nature's Made since about the beginning of my second trimester.  Before that I was taking a Walgreens-brand vitamin without DHA.  When I switched to Nature's Made, it gave me nausea and stomach aches at first.  I didn't have any morning sickness during pregnancy, except my first week or two on the Nature's Made vitamins.  Once I switched to taking the NM vitamins at night, on a full stomach, I didn't have any more issues.  But for whatever reason, I wasn't able to take the NM vitamins first thing in the morning on an empty stomach like I could with the Walgreen's brand. 

   I don't know enough about Red Raspberry Leaf to comment on that.  
  

  

     
  

  

   

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