This subject along with many others are quite common, we will do our best to answer this and many other similar questions in this article which should ease your mind regarding this subject.
What Are Prenatal Vitamins?
Prenatal vitamins are supplements made for pregnant women to give their bodies the vitamins and minerals needed for a healthy pregnancy. Your doctor may suggest that you take them when you begin to plan for pregnancy, as well as while you’re pregnant.
What To Look For In Prenatal Vitamins
Prenatal vitamins help ensure that you get the nutrients you need for a healthy pregnancy.
When Should You Start Taking Prenatal Vitamins?
That said, the CDC sees value in all people with ovaries taking a prenatal with folate throughout their “reproductive years” to support fetal neural tube (brain, spine, and spinal cord) development in the event of pregnancy. (In fact, it’s estimated that almost half of pregnancies are unplanned.). Taking a prenatal months (or even years, depending on the formulation) before conception helps you prepare your body for pregnancy, nutritionally speaking, no matter when that ends up happening.
Frequently Asked Questions
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En “eat for two,” but now we know that it’s dangerous to eat twice your usual amount of food during pregnancy. Instead of “eating for two,” think of it as eating twice as healthy. If you are pregnant with one fetus, you need an extra 340 calories per day starting in the second trimester (and a bit more in the third trimester).
That’s roughly the calorie count of a glass of skim milk and half a sandwich. Women carrying twins should consume about 600 extra calories a day, and women carrying triplets should take in 900 extra calories a da.