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September Product Spotlight: Prenatal Vitamins

hestia-is-weariehestia-is-wearie member
in May 2023 Moms
Want to share which PNV you're using or what your provider recommends? Need suggestions for a PNV that you can actually stomach at this stage? Look no further!
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Re: September Product Spotlight: Prenatal Vitamins

  • hestia-is-weariehestia-is-wearie member
    I've been using NatureMade softgel PNVs with folic acid and DHA. The pill is a bit large, but I can manage swallowing it as long as I drink enough water with it. They changed their formula since my last pregnancy and it has a slightly fishy undertone now, so we'll see how much longer I can tolerate them.

    Also, my old provider gave me a ton of PNV samples at my first prenatal appointment--never hurts to ask them!
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  • ashleyp625ashleyp625 member
    edited September 2022
    I just use target up and up. No idea if that’s good, but it’s what I used last time and my son is very smart and fairly healthy, so 🤷🏻‍♀️ Lol. 
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  • carodukecaroduke member
    I take Materna Prenatal vitamin, I think it's by Nestle? It's what my Dr reccomended and kinda what I've always stuck with since. I snag it when it goes on sale at Costco and is pretty reasonably priced that way. 
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  • momsiepopsiclemomsiepopsicle member
    I've got the Equate (Walmart brand) PNV. I wasn't even looking for the best priced, I was looking for one with higher Folic Acid due to my risk factors and it has 800 instead of 400.
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  • dolewhipperdolewhipper member
    I bought some plain ol' ones for now until I won't be able to stomach them and have to go to gummies without iron (If your vitamins are making you sick, it might be the iron, and gummie don't usually have it in those). I love the Smarty Pants one in last pregnancies and just took liquid iron in addition. 
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  • radioactivetradioactivet member
    edited September 2022
    The book I read when TTC recommended Rainbow Light brand (35+ Mom & Baby Multivitamin targeted for both prenatal & postnatal time frames), I think because it has enough calcium to avoid needing an additional Ca supplement. I also take Nordic naturals ultimate Omega with D3. The fish oil supplement doesn't have any fishy tast at all!
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  • smarsh86smarsh86 member
    I am currently on my grocery stores generic gummies and bought my next bottle of the Vitafusion prenatal gummies. I took these with my first and it was great! Continued them after birth too for awhile.
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  • jeanniegoldjeanniegold member
    I get full body niacin flush so I needed to stop taking a prenatal. I haven’t been able to find a prenatal vitamin without niacin or with lower niacin.

    I’ve been taking a womens multi vitamin gummy and an additional fish oil supplement and vitamin D supplement. Does this seem sufficient? The womens multi has 400mcg of folic acid.

    This is the womens multi I’ve been taking. https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Bounty-Solutions-Multivitamin-Raspberry/dp/B00WF8A7MQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?adgrpid=51506001570&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyOuYBhCGARIsAIdGQROzCUFVN5hmugHuG_eN5-n3T5TxM8pGCt9x-4r0ugA_Mild3xoRe68aAiNlEALw_wcB&hvadid=617130929219&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9007250&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=1026411115961210993&hvtargid=kwd-300448170880&hydadcr=6716_13278945&keywords=natures+bounty+womens+gummies&qid=1662739831&sr=8-3
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  • krb99krb99 member
    I take Vitafusion prenatals and an extra Vitafusion vitamin D. They’re tasty as far as gummy vitamins go.

    @jeanniegold With the big caveat of obviously you should ask your doctor to be sure, but your vitamins look ok to me. If you don’t have other risk factors (like prior babies with birth defects or medications that can decrease your folate or other there’s a bunch of others so you really want to check with your doctor) you just need 400 mcg of folate and you want Vitamin A to not be too high, so only 50% of your recommended daily intake or less. I’ve found a lot of women’s daily multivitamins meet this criteria, almost as if if they’re advertising a vitamin to someone who could possibly be childbearing age they kinda automatically make it pregnancy safe even if that person isn’t planning pregnancy. 
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  • jeanniegoldjeanniegold member
    Thank you! I ended up hearing back from my doctor today and she said the same, so I feel comfortable with what I’m taking. I appreciate your input! 
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  • ceclarlinetloceclarlinetlo member
    Kroger brand prenatals are the only multivitamin that don’t make me throw up even when I am not pregnant. 
    TW: MMC
    BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
    BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
    ———
    Diagnoses and Treatments
    PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
    Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
    Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
    ———
    BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
    BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏

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  • almost40npregalmost40npreg member
    Olly prenatal gummies. (My whole family has been on Olly gummies for a few years now) 
    and I take a liquid iron from Mary Ruth’s Organics. So easy to digest. I actually haven’t taken it in two days and am beginning to feel nauseated. Let me go get my tablespoon in, lol! 
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  • maelovemaelove member
    @ceclarlinetlo Girl I’m right there with you but my savior is the cvs brand tablets 🤣 
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  • ceclarlinetloceclarlinetlo member
    @maelove I just responded to you in the fitness thread. I am beginning to think we might be the same people lol. 
    TW: MMC
    BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
    BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
    ———
    Diagnoses and Treatments
    PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
    Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
    Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
    ———
    BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
    BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏

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