Is there really a 'right' vitamin for everyone?

Question

I think it is essential to get your folic acid, but if some people get very sick off of the prenatal, do you really think that is good for your baby? What did they do in the 'olden days'. I mean come on...they didn't have these vitamins. One size doesn't fit all and I think we have to remember that.

I am six weeks pregnant and was deathly ill on Materna. I was eating lousy as well because I just couldn't eat. I take 2 Flintstones...one in the morning and one at night as well as my tablet of folic acid. You can get Flintstone vitamins with iron as well. I also walk and do yoga. Each of which I could not do on Materna as I felt like a bucket of you know what.

Now I feel a heck of a lot better and eat very well. You can also eat Total cereal-chalked full of vitamins, which your body digest naturally. There are 'natural' ways to get what your baby needs.

Just something to think about.

Answer 1

True.  Then again, in the "olden days" before they knew about the importance of folic acid, there were many more babies born with neural tube defects.

Flintstones are fine in early pregnancy if that is what you can tolerate.  And in all honesty, one prenatal vitamin is pretty much the same as the next.  They aren't designed to provide all of the nutrients you need in a given day--they are just supposed to be a supplement to help make sure that between diet and your prenatals, you and your baby get the vitamins you need each day.

FYI, Total cereal is just cereal that is fortified with various vitamins and minerals.  It's no more a "natural" way to get your vitamins than taking a pill.

Answer 2

Two flinstones are fine.  I had switched to flinstones in my first trimester because my tummy was sensitive and the prenatal vitamins would make me gag and essentially throw up every time I took it.  After the first trimester I went back on the Prenate.  Once it ran out,  I just went to GNC and got a regular prenatal vitamin there.  I figure I eat fairly balanced meals to supplement whatever else the vitamin doesn't.