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Why Prescribed Prenatal Vitamins Simply Do Not Give Your Baby What They Need to Be Healthy

Most over the counter or prescribed prenatal vitamins do not do very much for your health. There are a few exceptions to this rule, such as Nature Made Prenatal-Multi, but many do not make a whole lot of difference. In particular, most prenatals:

•Contain poor quality ingredients. The sad truth is that many vitamins prescribed by your doctor contain cheap ingredients because it costs them less money. This low quality means that many of the vitamins and minerals are no able to be absorbed by your body or your baby. So really, what is the point of taking them?

•Don’t contain the right ingredients in the right amounts. Your baby needs certain nutrients in specific quantities to make sure they grow big and strong. Many prenatal vitamins don’t get this right and they also miss out on special ingredients to relieve your nausea and calm you down.

•Come in one-a-day tablet form. I’ve spoken about why I don’t like one a day vitamins before, but not only do they not have anywhere near the nutrients you need in just one tablet, they also compress it all down into one which makes it very difficult for your body to digest. Even if the quality of ingredients was good, these tablets quite often don’t even make it to your stomach in the first place!

•Can contain harmful or unneccessary ingredients. Prenatal vitamins generally do not contain many of the harmful chemicals and compounds that can often be found in other vitamins, but there are still ingredients in them that are not necessary. Artificial flavoring, of which most is sugar, is the main one and is something you can do without as a mother-to-be. Artificial coloring is another, and it’s sole use is to make the pills look “pretty” for you. Avoid these in your prenatal vitamins because you just don’t know what impact they might have on your baby.

Many women experience nausea while taking these prenatal vitamins too, because of the poor quality nutrients in them. This can be avoided by taking a quality prenatal vitamin before conceiving, to ensure your body has all the nutrients your baby needs long before they start to grow.

So, if most over the counter or prescribed prenatal vitamins are not that great for you or your baby, what is the alternative? You’ll need all the standard and essential vitamins and nutrients, along with the ingredients that many vitamins don’t supply because of cost.