How long did you take your pregnancy supplements for?

[AliBaby]

Hi girls, I have been taking Elevit supplements since I found out I was pregnant and was wondering how long I needed to take it for?

[[M]umma[M]ia]

i plan on taking mine right through until i finish breastfeeding.. HTH

ps.. u dont HAVE to take them if u dont want to or they make u sick etc. As long as u have a well balanced diet.

[satya]

I took them right through the pregnancy.

[Heaven]

I'm just keeping on with my vitamins til the end but I think it's most important in the first tri.

[AliBaby]

Thanks for the advice. I think I will continue to take through the pregnancy. I am just hopeless at remembering to take them!

[Mumma2three]

I took them both times until the end of breastfeeding. The ones i have are pregnancy and bf anyway, so it's recommended throughout. ALso some of the vitamins and minerals are ongoing. Things like Folic acid is the first trimester or so, but the other things are needed throughout, such as iodine, fish oil etc.

[MantaRay]

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.

[MamaPan]

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

[Indadhanu]

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!'.

[Liz]

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.

[Junglemum]

I am the same as Mantray- i only took folate, but only for first trimester.

First preg i had to take iron too - funny thing is Leasha it has the opposite effect on me! Lets just say.........explosive!

[Deltadawn]

Four months before conception through to the birth. I didnt breastfeed but I think it recommends through breastfeeding too.