I posted this question in a different thread but haven't got an answer so I'll try here. Are prenatals necessary? I've been taking my Rainbow Light multivitamin; it has 100% folic acid and a ton of B12 (I'm vegan), which are the ones I was concerned about. I couldn't find the Rainbow Light prenatals at Whole Foods so I'm wondering if I can just keep taking my regular multivitamin. What do you guys think? I don't have a midwife to ask yet, we're still interviewing. At this point I think whatever vitamins I can take and doesn't make me sick (yet!) have got to be good. I do eat a healthy diet, so I'm fairly confident that I'm getting a decent array of vitamins and minerals through my diet, so I'm not really relying on the vitamin to provide me with what I need. Does that make sense? What are you taking?
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Prenatals?
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. I am thinking about ordering Professional Prenatal Formula by Lifetime as suggested in "Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition" by Marilyn Shannon. Has anybody heard anything about this one? She has great stuff to say about taking vitamins to regulate your cycle which really work! I gotta say, B6 is magical stuff. (I forgot to take it for a few days last cycle and my cycle immediately got all wacked out. Three days back on the B6 and everything was normal again!) I have upped my intake since I got the
from 100mg to 200mg in the hopes of staying morning sickness. Which is hint to all of you: taking 300mg B6 daily in 50mg increments-at least one hour between pills (your liver can't process anymore than this at a time, so anything over 50mg just gets flushed according to "The Encylopedia of Natural Medicine") is suppose to prevent/cure morning sickness.
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