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I have been taking Elevit right through my pregnancy and for 1st 3 months of breastfeeding and have just run out. Is it ok now to swap back to my regular multi Natures Own Mega Potency Women's Multivitamin, or should I buy more Elevit for while I'm still BFing? The main difference are the folate and extra iron in the Elevit I guess...
I was told by a midwife before I left hospital that you don't need to take special breast feeding vitamins. Don't know if that's right but that's just what she told me. I also read this in one of the handouts I was given at hossy.
id be making sure it has iodine in it as well!!
Why do you need extra iodine for bfing?
We only need tiny amounts of iodine so if you can use an iodised salt that should take care of it.
i'm a great believer in supplements - and as a complementary therapist, i do take them myself. when i had my twins in 1988, there wasn't much support for breastfeeding or vitamins, but i stuck to my guns and took them, and fed for 20 months till i fell pregnant again, although due to circumstances beyond my control i didn't continue that pregnancy. when i fell pregnant with my youngest, i didn't take supplements, and she only got a year of breastfeeding, and was hungry all the time.
so i guess i'm saying personally, i'd take them, because if your body doesn't need it you excrete it anyways. better to waste a few cents a day in vitamins than do without. your body is trying to feed a whole 'nother person!
i take blackmore's pregnancy and breastfeeding gold, blackmore's cal/mag mix, 1000mg of vitamin c, and flaxseed oil. now that we're pretty sure my two m/c have been a lack of progesterone issue, i've added vitex as well.
the blackmore's pregnancy and breastfeeding multi has iodine which is required for thyroid support, also a factor in m/c. iodine is naturally found in seaweed (kelp) and seafood (deep water fish) but also in sea salt, and added to iodised salt.