After a chemical pregnancy last month, I'm back! I'm still feeling a bit nervous this time around, as my only symptoms are some moodiness and breast tenderness and I'm only 15 dpo. Still, I've had multiple bfps so far and they seem more solid than what I got last time (and also getting slightly darker by day, I'm pretty sure ( Read more... )

Hi ladies!
For some reason I can't remember if I took my prenatal vitamins and vitamin D today...would it be better to take them now and chance double dosing or to skip it and take them again tomorrow??

Thanks!

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So up until the last 2 to 3 days, when I've taken my vitamin, I've pretty much almost thrown it up straight away, I'm only 7w6d so I'm early on, bub has a heartbeat of 142beats per minute, and other then some nausea before bed, and when I don't eat within an hour of getting up aswell as exhaustion and bloating, I've been quite well, exercising ( Read more... )

I saw an earlier post on what people think is the best prenatal and this reminded me of an earlier question I had but forgot to ask my doctor at my last apt (I really need to write these things down ( Read more... )

So last night i forgot to take my prenatal :X
i was just wondering if anyone thought it was okay for me to  take one this morning and one tonight? TIA :)

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Did you know Vitamin C can give you a stronger amniotic sac? I'm just finding this out. It's hard to know about the dosage though. I do try to eat lots of fruits/vegetables so probably get more than average that way, but I'm wondering how much to supplement on top of what's already in the prenatal ( Read more... )

So, at the end of last winter I was totally nonfunctional and my Vitamin D level was 22. I took 2000 IU's a day and felt a lot better ( Read more... )

I have severe constipation with this pregnancy, it was a problem from week 12 and then the hospital put me on super dooper strong iron tablets as my blood count was through the floor. But! Today, I have had diarrhea 3 times, not to mention heavy sickness. Havent felt this shoddy since the first trimister, and as I said before usually I am so ( Read more... )

For those of you who take vitamins/supplements, in addition to your regular multi/prenatals , what do you take? In what quantities/from what sources? Were these recommended by your doctor/midwife?