Should I take vitamins while I'm pregnant?

Should I take vitamins while I'm pregnant?

Jay Goldberg (Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: What should I eat or avoid eating if I'm pregnant?; How much weight should I gain if I'm pregnant? and more...

It is recommended to take supplemental vitamins in pregnancy. A lot of companies, because we live in capitalistic America, have created prenatal vitamins, vitamins that they target you for, saying these are the best for the prenatal experience. I find that a multivitamin, simply a multivitamin, is really all you need. Eating healthily is the most important thing. If you do that, you don't even need any vitamins, but if you find that you're not eating healthily because your diet or your nausea doesn't allow you to do so, then supplementing with a multivitamin is very important when pregnant. You should have been taking folic acid before you were pregnant, but obviously once you get pregnant it's equally important to take it throughout the pregnancy, more so in the first trimester. So, if you take a multivitamin that has enough folic acid and supplements other vitamins like calcium, Vitamins A and C, then that's fantastic. But you do not need to take a prenatal vitamin per se.