Are prenatals really necessary?

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I don't have the best diet, especially since becoming pregnant but I never really worried too much about it. I'm vegan and try to eat balanced meals as often as I can. I started off taking the rainbow prenatals, but stopped taking them cause I started throwing up afterwards. I tried taking them with juice and food. The vitamins were great at helping me get through the first trimester, but now im wondering how essential they really are.. it's been about a month since I stopped taking them. Any mamas that didn't take prenatals and have perfectly healthy babes?

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No matter how well you eat, our current farming practices won’t allow you to get all the nutrients you need based on soil care (eg. Magnesium). Try a food based multivitamin like Megafood Baby and Me).    You definitely need extra folic acid in the first trimester to avoid issues like spina bifida.

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Try Ritual prenatals! They smell and "taste" like lemon, they are in a vegan capsule with vegan ingredients. They are specially designed to start dissolving in your small intestine rather than your stomach which helps to combat nauseous and sickness. Good luck. ❤️

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I think they're important, but I get you. Definitely try the gummies that are easy on your stomach. They really work! Most every other kind will make me vomit (even before I got preggo)

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They’re important. Try tracking your nutrition with Cronometer for a week and see where you fall short. For me, even on my best days, I still need b12, iron, vitamin d, and calcium. I’m a healthy vegan and my bloodwork is perfect because I supplement. Vitamins work. 
Maybe try a different prenatal? I like MyKind and Deva.

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Real food for pregnancy, it’s a book and it gets into the whole real nutrition for pregnancy. Food is way more important than some pill, a lot of naturopaths say that prenatals are kinda bunk because they are synthetic anyways. That rainbow light brand is gross, they say whole food cos they add some greens or whatever to their synthetic vitamin cocktail. If you want to take a good vitamin I like synergy or naturelo. I know lots of women who had healthy pregnancies with no prenatals by were not vegan.

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I didn’t take any my 1st pregnancy I threw them up constantly. I just took a folic acid supplement and regular multi vitamins. My son is fine and doc said it was fine. 
This pregnancy I couldnt stomach them the first 16 weeks and tried again and have been fine taking them since.

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Look into different pregnancies teas! Sometimes you can get most of the extra vitamins you need by simply drinking tea but be sure to take to your doctor or midwife first because its not for everyone and you may still have to take certain supplements like extra iron even with the tea.

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I was so sick with hyperemesis both pregnancies that i didn’t take them and my daughter is a year and a half and healthy. My doctor said it’s most important before you become pregnant, and mostly just because of the folate. My midwife said the same. I did have my vit d levels and iron tested because those are important and took a liquid vit d drop that I could take (vegan- from lichen plant not sheep wool). 1st pregnancy I didn’t take anything before pregnancy because it was unplanned, and too sick to take during. This pregnancy I was already taking a prenatal while nursing so when I became pregnant I had some prenatal folate built up I guess. Haven’t taken anything since about week 5 as I was too sick to stomach even the gummies. Pink Stork sells a natural folate from lemon or something and it’s a liquid so you can buy that, and a vegan vit d if you don’t get enough sun.

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Have you tried taking them at night

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Becareful what prenatal you take. If you have the MUTHR gene mutation the folic acid will hurt baby. You’ll have to take a prenatal with folate which is just the natural form. Folic acid is a synthetic version.

Are prenatals really necessary?

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