Should you only take 1 prenatal vitamin?

Question

This is my first pregnancy I am 5w 4days. Should I only take 1 prenatal vitamin or is it better to take 2 or 3. The bottle suggests take one daily preferably with a meal. Would it hurt my baby to take one in the morning and one in the evening? Also does the brand of vitamins matter? I purchased the cheaper ones. Thank you in advance :)

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I don't think the brand matters. I bought target's brand with my first and she's perfectly healthy and smart. 😊 One pill is plenty for the baby, but you should take a multivitamin for yourself so you can stay healthy, too.

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Do not take more than the recommended dose without talking to your doctor about it. While some vitamins, like Vitamin C, are water soluble and extra will just filter out of your body, other elements in prenatals, like iron, do not filter out and you could poison yourself if you take too much.

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If it says 1, then only take 1. You can get too much.

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Only take one. And a prenatal counts as your multi-vitamin as well. Don't take both.

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Don't take too much vitamin A in supplement form!! Its fat soluble, so you don't eliminate the excess that you don't need so it just builds and builds AND IT CAUSES BIRTH DEFECTS 😥 I've been reading a lot about supplements because I take green veggie food powder and red antioxidant food powder, along with protein powder and multivitamins and digestive mushroom blends and all this crazy stuff for optimal health, but it was only safe for MY body. Not a developing baby's too. So I just had to change my whole supplement routine last week when I got my first positive test lol. If you're curious about ANYTHING in any food you eat, drink, or skin products you use, you should look it up... I bought these nice Alaskan fish oil pills for the dha and epa omega 3 in them. Turns out there's also omega 5, 6, 7, 9, & 11, along with astaxanthin which is an antioxidant that's NOT good for baby. Waste of money!! Thankfully my love is into the whole supplement and working out thing as well, so they'll go to use and help him at least :) but there's an unbelievable amount you should read. About literally everything.... Lol I'm expecting my first little one too and I've been reading so much this week, so I had to tell you to not double your prenatals and god forbid take 3! I'd have no idea what that would do haha. But nothing good. If you needed more than the dose your prenantal supplies you, they'd give it to you. But they give you what you need :) and I was told when I go in to the doc for my first appointment they could tell me what I'm actually lacking and taking too much of, I hope they really do that!

I rambled on a little haha but I'm sure you get the point, look into everything and anything you can think of! :) and take care!

Should you only take 1 prenatal vitamin?

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