My husband and I have just started ttc. I have always had a very good diet so I haven't had to change much there. My concern is with my multivitamin...., when I started reading about pre-conception and pregnancy nutrition I read about birth defects associated with vitamin A and assumed that prenatal pills wouldn't contain Vitamin A,but they do?????Why is that?? If we can get adequate amounts of Vitamin A through our diets, why do vitamins, especially pre-natal vitamins even include it???
I talked to three different pharmacists and they said if I like my current multivitamin, stay on it, supplement with folic acid and increase my calcium.This is the most important info on my current multivitamin..... Vitamin A:1000 IU Beta-Carotene:3000 IU Folic Acid: 0.6mg Vitamin D:400 IU Calcium:200mg Iron:4mg
So I bought Folic acid (each pill is 1mg,??I believe)A chewable Calcium carbonate w/Vitamin D (600mg elemental and 200IU of Vit.D)
What's with all the Vitamin D?? I have read that we get enough through our diets. So my concern is not with LACK of nutrition, but the chance that I may get TOO MUCH of certain vitamins. Has anyone come across this before??