All I took was folate, and I took that all the way through TTC, pg, bfing, TTC again, second pg and stopped when I'd been bfing DS2 for quite a while - maybe a year or so. If you have a good diet, you mostly don't need supplements other than folate (also called folic acid). Some women do need iron but a bt will be able to tell if you need to or not.
I took mine all through TTC, preg and BF....
It cant hurt and I found I felt lot better if I kept taking them.
There are some that are for preg and bfeeding (blackmores i think) - that's what I took..
They also have other preconception ones which I will take in the lead up and during TTC
i stopped taking mine at about 28 weeks... kept forgetting ... and then at my 36 week blood test i found out my iron was waaaaaaaaaaaaay too low... it had been great while taking the vitamins ... so had to go on heavy duty iron tablets, which trust me you do not want to be on, tmi - it blocks you up like you wouldnt believe... and i thought being on the normal vitamins was bad! im still having to take them because my levels dropped again because of losing blood during the c/s and the lochia which hasnt quite stopped yet...
my advice is stay on the vitamins until you have stopped bleeding after the birth, help to sustain those levels, i never had problems with iron before pregnancy but i am kicking myself now ... and am reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly sick of pear juice and stewed pears... the only things that 'gets things moving!'.
I only took them before TTC and through the first trimester. Got lazy after that coz Folate is the only one we really need to make sure we take.
Re the iron. There isn't a lot of iron in pg multi's so if you have low iron, you'd probably need to take more heavy duty iron tablets anyway.. like FeFol or something.
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