No prenatals?

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Anyone else's doc tell them it's not important or recommended to take prenatal vitamins while pregnant? Mine told me all I need to worry about getting is enough follic acid.

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No way,  prenatals are essential (unless you eat absolutely perfectly all the time which no one does). They are very, very beneficial to you and baby! I would never skip on something so vital to baby's health! I'm so confused as to why  a doctor wouldn't HIGHLY recommend them.

Good luck.

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That's what mine told me too. That and just getting the proper nutrients through food. I couldn't keep my prenatal a down and flintstones vitamins stopped working with my system very quickly as well.

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My doctor said not to worry about a prenatal multivitamin.  I eat a healthy varied diet,  with very little processed foods and have a qualification in nutrition so I think the doctor wasn't worried about me. I do take a prescription folic acid along with a vitamin D supplement because I don't eat dairy and know I'm likely to be deficient.

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I told him mine make me nauseous and he said to bad take them with food.

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Same here! Plus, prenatals give your baby more of a chance to develop jaundice. I haven't taken prenatals since the first trimester!

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My doctor said same thing.  Except she said to take iron and folic acid. 
Also prenatals are known to make nausea worse, I had (all day) morning sickness right up to 22 weeks 😕.  As long as you have a good balanced diet you don't really need them.

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I was only on folic acid in the first trimester, my midwife and my Dr said not to bother taking them after that because it's not proven that they do anything after the first trimester because that part of the baby's neck and spine closes. My Dr did say that I needed to continue to take my iodine tablets for my whole pregnancy and while I'm breastfeeding. This is prescription by the way, not something you buy from a pharmacy, not sure if there's a difference.

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When I told my doctor how sick I was she quickly said stop taking prenatals. I was surprised but the nutrients I was losing (and the pain I was causing my body) by taking them I guess outweighed the positives in the vitamin

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Yea mine told me that too. And said that chewable Flinstone vitamins would work just fine.

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I eat healthy and haven't taken one prenatal vitamin. They keep saying if my blood work comes back low on iron, to switch to a prenatal but so far I've been fine. I take the daily gummy adult vitamins from Costco and those seem to do what they need to, minus iron which they don't have. Works for my body. Everyone is different.

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