Thoughts on supplements??

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I'm 5w5d (wow!) with baby #1 and I'm currently taking a prenatal daily and vitamin D (I'm deficient living in Washington state). I'm wondering if the prenatal is enough or if I should also get a folic acid supplement? I know that is vital to baby development right now. Thoughts/recommendations?

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I've found that many of the prenatals are very low in calcium. You might want to add a supplement for that or up your intake.

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I'm using Zita West vitamins (UK version), which has folate rather than folic acid 😊. Not sure if that's helpful though!

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I would add a prenatal DHA supplement if your regular prenatal vitamin doesn't already have DHA in it (some do some don't). It helps the baby's brain development. I usually take the Rainbow Light brand prenatal DHA and I've had no trouble with it. For some women DHA supplements make them a little queasy.

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I recommend finding a vitamin with folate instead of folic acid. Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate. Folic acid is believed to be a reason for an increased number of tongue and lip ties. I'm took folic acid last time and my son had a sever lip tie that caused me to be unable to breastfeed. I didn't know about them I until he was about 6 months old. I'm going to try folate this time AND look for the ties right away. This is just my preference :)

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Any prenatal vitamin will have enough folic acid in it. So you wouldn't need to supplement with more.

Thoughts on supplements??

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