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Prenatal Vitamins
I wanted to post this question here rather than on the "getting pregnant" board b/c I'm hoping to find a prenatal vitamin that is, well, for lack of a better word, green (pure? natural? healthiest?). DH and I will start TTC towards the end of the year and I've heard that it's recommended to start taking the vitamins a couple of months prior.
I would love to hear your recommendations, TIA!
Re: Prenatal Vitamins
I can't have gelatin, so I had a problem finding prenatal vitamins that didn't contain gelatin. I finally found this one at Walgreens: http://www.vitacost.com/Rainbow-Light-Just-Once-Prenatal-One-Multivitamin/?bv=product-_-4595-_-RLP-_-25457-_-image_link
The label says it is free of:
VeganGuard? screened for vegans to be free of animal products."
I was taking these Rainbow Light Prenatal One Multivitamin - http://www.rainbowlight.com/Categories.aspx?Category=d83213e2-f71d-43ff-836d-c71835132d2f but the 30 mg of iron was killing me, plus the pills are large and a weird brown color and smelled funny!
I just switched to the Rainbow Light Certified Organics Prenatal Vitamin - http://www.rainbowlight.com/Categories.aspx?Category=4cba5760-c84c-4821-86be-bba2d30040ad and like it sooo much better, way less iron. but you have to take 4 a day, instead of one. which so far i don't mind. they are way easier to digest and can even be sprinkled on food.
While at the store I was also really interested in the New Chapter Perfect Prenatal http://www.newchapter.com/products/perfect-prenatal
what it came down to though was that the Rainbow Light was $26.99 for 120 pills (one month supply at 4 pills per day) while the New Chapter was $29.99 for only 48 pills - which was only a 16 day supply (3 pills per day). so it came down to a money thing and I liked the list of ingredients, etc in the rainbow light ones better. these are the prices at my local whole foods, btw.
I take Solgar, and love them. They don't bother my stomach at all, not even with my pregnancy nausea, and I'm usually sensitive to vitamins. They contain no sugar, starch, corn, yeast, wheat, dairy products, preservatives, artificial flavors or colors.
A lot of the "natural" prenatal vitamins contain herbs, and that's not something I wanted to mess with. This was the only more natural vitamin I could find without them.
This is what I take and I'm very happy with them. At Whole Foods, they come in a combo pack with Rainbow Light DHA 250, which my OBGYN told me I should take, for $30. I have a sensitive stomach and I know that some prenatals make your stomach upset, and I have no problem with these. I have no issues with the iron, and I don't think the pills smell. They put an orange oil capsule in the DHA 250 bottle to help offset the fishy smell (DHA is made from fish oil).
Same here, plus an algal DHA pill. Despite the iron in them, I'm also now taking an extra iron supplement 3x a week because my OB said I'm a little anemic (no doubt due to a month of m/s).
~*~Nestie Bestie with Bemmas221 ~*~
BFP 8/28/07, M/C 11/10/07
My TTA Chart|DIY obsessed
OK so now that I am pregnant I've become super crazy. all the rainbow light ones and the trader joes ones, and basically all the "natural" ones have tons of herbs and things in them. why I didn't read them closer before is beyond me. well I am a nurse (labor and delivery and fertility), and happen to know red raspberry leaf is used to induce labor. so why is it in prenatal's? I went to my doc and we looked together in the books we keep in the office that tell you if this medication or herb is safe in pregnancy and why etc. and the red raspberry leaf, the pomegranate extract (eating it is fine though) and the spirulina were all no no's in pregnancy. so I returned it to whole foods. wound up getting at target - nature made. just their plain prenatal. says it has No Artificial Colors, No Artificial Flavors, No Preservatives, No Yeast, No Gluten. it's one pill and it's tiny! has been working great for me. their prenatal + DHA unfortunately is not good though - has artificial colors, etc.
I'm not sure if they are available in the states or not, but I have been taking Platinum Easymulti Prenatals as recommended by my midwife and naturopath/nutritionist. I have not had any nausea, constipation, or other side-effects. They are a natural gel-cap type, you only have to take one per day and they don't have any smell, extra junk, or herbals.