I took them for a while but got really annoyed at taking a million of the things a day so started eating some heavy duty muesli instead!

This has contradicted every other bit of information that I have ever got (including from hospital etc), but I was recently told by my local chemist that Metamucil powder is not OK during pregnancy because it contains aspartame (sp?). I doubt that the capsules would contain artificial sweeteners though - there's no point in sweetening them!

Has anybody else heard this? I don't use artificial sweeteners, so probably wouldn't really pay attention, but I've never heard that they are not OK to use during pregnancy...