Absolutely Delightful

It is so hard to find reliable information on vitamins during pregnancy. I have been having some NVP (nausea & vomiting in pregnancy) and although not nearly as bad as with Hayden, I had sought the counsel of the folks at Mother Risk (www.motherisk.org). Awesome organization – more on that in another post. Anyways, the folks there told me to increase my protein intake and one of the ways that I can do that is through protein powder since meat doesn’t really appeal to me right now and I certainly don’t want to smell it cooking. I do have a protein powder that tastes awesome but it has added vitamins and minerals so I was looking up RDA to see if my prenatal vitamin combined with this and the food I eat would put me in a danger category since I’m pregnant. I got as far as vitamin E and apparently there is this new Dutch study that has shown a possible link between vitamin intake over 15 mg (the RDA) during pregnancy and heart defects in babies. Yikes! My prenatal has 15 mg in it and then I’m sure my daily diet has some. This particular protein powder has 15 mg also. I looked into getting a different prenatal but most had about 10-15 mg and some even had 30 mg! I have even seen some prenatals that have way over the RDA for vitamin A (not as beta carotin) and this has been proven as a teratagen. Anyways I’m annoyed. There are so many things to worry about and look out for when you are pregnant and so many sources of conflicting information. I’ll just be glad when this is done and we have our healthy baby in our arms.