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Is miralax safe to use while you are pregnant?

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I’d definitely try other, more natural things first. Way too many horror stories about adverse effects in children to make me think it’s safe during pregnancy. As a medication it is not to be used more than 7 days, yet it’s prescribed for use way longer than that. Is also a pregnancy category C drug which means that “animal studies have shown risk to the fetus, there are no controlled studies in women, or studies in women and animals are not available.” Basically there’s insufficient data on the effects of the medication on the fetus. Check out parents against miralax or just search the news for stories. I have read of some instances with the same effect in adults. They report psychotic episodes, personality changes, rage. Personally, I will never touch the stuff.

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I eat two prunes daily. If I really can't go then I take two colace.

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I think instead of a laxative a stool softener is better during pregnancy. I would recommend Colace and eating a lot of high fiber foods. Also I used benefiber because you can put it in any drink or food without compromising texture of flavor.

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My OB told me today to only use that (or any other laxative) as a very last resort. It’s a category C medication. I’ve been using benefiber and drinking 10 or so bottles of water a day which has helped keep me regular. Before the benefiber I was going 3-4 days without a bowel movement which was pure hell. I’m pretty anti-medication in general, especially while pregnant, just because I know too much regarding health/medical science.

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I'm not anti medicine at all. but please stay away from that! they had my daughter on it and it affected her mental state 😣

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