Is iron important in prenatal??

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Recently realized that my prenatal does not have iron. I know folic acid is important- it does have that... 
is iron important? Thanks y’all ! 
(I’m almost 8 weeks)

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Agree with everyone says, and make sure to eat iron rich foods 👍🏻

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Yes. You can buy iron pills to take along with your prenatals

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If you like your current prenatal, I would just add an iron supplement. A lot of prenatal don’t have much iron if any. My doctor prescribed an additional iron supplement in addition to the prenatal.

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Yes, they will check with blood work. They have me on iron pills now too.

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Iron is very important to stay on top of. Anemia during pregnancy is common enough but if your levels drop too low, it becomes not only dangerous for you but for baby as well. With my first, my levels were at an 8 and I was put on 6 weeks worth of iron infusions. It sucked. I was told had they gotten below 6, my daughter could’ve passed away. With this pregnancy, I’m already running into major issues with it as well and they’re occurring even earlier than with my first. I got tested and my levels were at 10 last Monday. Got my glucose test done on 10/15 (just one week after) and they had dropped down to 9.2 so I’m being put on a double dosage of iron as well as drinking spinach smoothies every morning now. Make sure you find prenatals with it in them or grab a bottle of iron supplements because it’s not fun at all to run into issues with it.

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Yep. You don’t want to become anemic. ❤️

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Yes, because your blood volume increased you need more iron.