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Prenatal Vitamins

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Ask any health care practitioner and chances are you'll be told that it is a good idea to take a prenatal vitamin. Optimally, you will start taking that vitamin daily before you get pregnant, to ensure that your body has enough folic acid, iron, calcium, and other vital nutrients at your baby's conception. Not any multivitamin will do: prenatal vitamins are tabulated to respond to a pregnant body's needs. For pregnant women who find that prenatal supplements increase their nausea or constipation, the standard recommendation is to keep taking them but to try a different brand.

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