Question about Folic Acid

[Karon]

hi, i have a boy with spina bifida and i was blaming myself for it because everytime i took the folic acid i threw up, i did take another but i worried i hadn't taken enough.
I wasn't planning on being pregnant so quick so i wasn't taking it beforehand, i started as soon as i found out at about 6 weeks and when i asked the specialist if it was my fault for not taking enough he said that the main damage happens between 4-6 weeks of pregnancy so i couldn't have stopped it.
if you are trying i would sugest you are taking it daily

[SephiesMum]

Originally Posted by Karon

hi, i have a boy with spina bifida and i was blaming myself for it because everytime i took the folic acid i threw up, i did take another but i worried i hadn't taken enough.
I wasn't planning on being pregnant so quick so i wasn't taking it beforehand, i started as soon as i found out at about 6 weeks and when i asked the specialist if it was my fault for not taking enough he said that the main damage happens between 4-6 weeks of pregnancy so i couldn't have stopped it.
if you are trying i would sugest you are taking it daily

(((Hugs))) thanks for your frank and honest reply hon, much appreciated. xx

[Karon]

you are welcom, my boy is so lucky. medically he has spina bifida but phisically and mentally he is perfect he just had to have an opperation when he was one day old.
he is 9 months old and nearly walking so he is fine but it was so worrying

[SephiesMum]

Originally Posted by Karon

you are welcom, my boy is so lucky. medically he has spina bifida but phisically and mentally he is perfect he just had to have an opperation when he was one day old.
he is 9 months old and nearly walking so he is fine but it was so worrying

So pleased for Ryan, i do remember you posting about it in pregnancy and after giving birth. xx

[Lucy-LivysMummy]

I took Pregnacare whist trying for Livy, throughout and whilst breastfeeding every other day or when I remembered too. I'm taking it now but now it has seperate omega 3 tablets with it too - how things have changed (I sound like an old dear)

[Anna07]

Took it from when I found out (had been planning to take it before but was reckoning on things taking longer so hadn't got round to getting a supply in).

Stopped at 12 weeks. Also took some Omega 3 stuff while I was taking the folic acid.

[mrsharvey]

I stopped taking it at 12 weeks xxx

[Imosmummy]

I took the pronatal vitimins a few months before trying right up til a few weeks after i stopped expressing, they say folic acid during the whole pregnancy can cut heart deisese later in life, at the end of the day it wont do any harm to keep taking ti