Guest guest Posted January 10, 2002 Report Share Posted January 10, 2002 Huria, I didn't take supplements during the first few weeks of my pregnancy (although I had been taking them before I got pregnant -- I ran out of pills at just about the same time I conceived) and my son is now a perfectly healthy seven-month-old. Before people understood the benefit of folic acid in preventing neural tube defects almost no one took supplements, and even so that vast majority of babies did not have any problems. Considering that, the chances of your baby having a NTD are very, very small. That said, it's still a good idea to supplement during pregnancy if you can. I understand about not being able to stomach B vitamin pills -- they do smell pretty awful, don't they? I have used sublingual folic acid/B-12 pills instead at times. They don't have the same smell and taste as general B vitamin pills. In fact, the ones I used were kind of sweet. You place them under your tongue where they dissolve instead of swallowing them, so you don't have to deal with huge pills setting off your gag reflex, either. ---- Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ... -- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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