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Spinoff to Prenatals - Vitamin A?
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bunintheoven09
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Samantha
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Spinoff to Prenatals - Vitamin A?
I started taking a Centrum multivitamin with 500 mcg of Folic Acid 3 months before we started TTC. I just did a quick Google search to see if it was ok and read that it may want to be avoided since it has Vitamin A (3500IU - 29% as Beta Carotene), but also read that anything under 10000IU is ok. I did a quick search of pre-natals and it looks like they all have Vitamin A. Has anyone spoken to their doctor about this? Any thoughts?
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Posted 6/23/09 9:08 AM  |
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neener1211
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Re: Spinoff to Prenatals - Vitamin A?
You need vitamin A, you just don't want over a certain amount of it.
I know my prenatals had it while I was pregnant, and my DH was taking those Flintstone vitamins-they smelled so good when I was pregnant and I wanted to eat them like candy . But I couldn't take one bc then I would be over the amount of Vitamin A that was healthy for the baby.
eta: When I got pregnant, I got a packet from my doctor for what I could take, and it said do not take any ADDITIONAL Vitamin A than what was already in my prenatal.
Message edited 6/23/2009 4:34:47 PM.
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| Posted 6/23/09 4:33 PM |
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itsbabytime
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Me
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Re: Spinoff to Prenatals - Vitamin A?
You can have too much vitamin A from vitamins but, you can't od on beta carotene so any bit of it in the form of beta carotene or naturally occuring in foods is fine!
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| Posted 6/24/09 12:17 AM |
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