If your prenatal vitamins make you nauseous...

[HappyMommy2]

... What do you do??? For vitamins, I mean? What kind of foods etc. do you make sure you get enough of?

[jessieb503]

My midwife told me that in the first trimester it is okay to skip the prenatals if they make you nauseous. She said they are more important in the second half of pregnancy.

I also make a strong batch of tea every day to drink: red raspberry leaf, nettles and alfalfa which gives a lot of vitamins and minerals.

have you tried a different prenatal? i find the whole food rainbow light one a day seemed to work best for me. Also, breaking it in half and taking one half in the morning and one half at night. Or taking it with your biggest meal of the day.

[lillymonster]

Originally Posted by jessieb503

My midwife told me that in the first trimester it is okay to skip the prenatals if they make you nauseous. She said they are more important in the second half of pregnancy.

I skipped them to because I heard the same thing. I didn't worry about foods, because I couldn't keep anything else down either. the nurse at my midwife's office freaked though when I said I wasn't taking anything, like you thought I had said I was drinking a scotch on the rocks daily or something.

Anyway she told me I could take anything, flintstones, one-day, anything like that, it didn't have to be pre-natal. Also I have heard you could just get by with folic acid in the beginning too

[HeatherB]

My MW told me taking two flinstones was fine. I didn't do that this time (couldn't stomach even the kids vitamins that my kids love), but eventually switched from the rather smelly Rainbow Light one-a-day to their new Rainbow Light Organics prenatal which, while you're supposed to take 4 a day, is a capsule and NOT smelly. It actually recommends 2-4, so I feel pretty good even if I only get 2 (I'm able to swallow two at once).

I'm no expert at nutrition, but feel like if I eat a good salad or a nice, green smoothie with lots of raw fruits and veggies that I'm getting a pretty good dose of nutrients. Some days, though, it's a matter of keeping *anything* down.

[Carolinamom4]

Try taking them at night, not the morning. I'm having trouble with DHA right now, makes me taste cod burps. Not yummy when you are nauseous!!

[westcoastlady]

I used to vomit ~20 minutes after taking a prenatal vitamin. It was awful... I'm pretty sure it was the iron... so for the remainder of that pregnancy I just took a regular multivitamin without the extra iron. This time around I found that even though it didn't make me vomit... it make me nauseous. So now I just take a vitamin pill - it has only vitamins, no minerals and that hasn't bothered me at all. I also take a folic acid supplement as well.

[SumnerRain]

I use a regular adult gummy vitamin that contains no iron, I get it from Costco. Since it does not have enough folic acid, I take that separatly. I will have to add in an iron pill once I can tolerate them, but for now I drink a RRL tea mixture from bulk herb store that has alfalfa, nettle, RRL and peppermint.

[finnegansmom]

I agree with the gummy vitamin. I get pretty gaggy and tend to vomit up pills in the first tri and my OB way back told me to eat flinstones (2). But the powdery texture of them made me gag so gummy ones seemed OK...probably not ideal but when I'm feeling really really really crummy and trying to work and function as a mother of 2, I tend to not make the best food choices during the 1st tri so I do my best to at least take the kiddie vitamins...

[lilmiss'mama]

I've laid off on the prenatals b/c of my m/s which tends to get worse as the day progresses. I've been taking some morning sickness magic capsules 4x/day which gives me 800mg of folic acid...not sure what the recommended dose is though of f.a.
I haven't told my midwife that's what I'm doing but i'm not too worried about it.