I made a bit of a mistake today. I was grocery shopping and came across gummy prenatal vitamins. I have been taking gummy flintstone vitamins since my first trimester since prenatal vitamins made me throw up and chewable flintstone vitamins made me feel extremely nauseated. I finally just accepted the fact that I would have to take gummy flintstone vitamins.
I have been doing really well with my gummy flintstone vitamins. I only got super nauseated from them a couple of times (both times on an empty stomach), and for the last 10-15 weeks I have been able to take them on an empty stomach no problem! It was with this logic, that gummy vitamins are safe, that I decided to purchase gummy prenatal vitamins at the store today.
Not all gummy vitamins are created equal, however. Gummy flintstone vitamins actually don't have a very high vitamin content. This is good and bad. It is good because the vitamins were what was upsetting my stomach, so by taking much smaller doses throughout the day I was able to keep the vitamins down. This is bad because the vitamins are low in vitamins, so in order to get in enough vitamins to match up to my prenatal vitamin I had to take 8 gummy vitamins in a day. This rarely happened. Furthermore, some vitamins in the flintstone gummies were at 50% of the RDA in just one gummy. Other vitamins were at 12.5%. So in order to get 100% of the vitamins at 12.5%, I would get 400% of the vitamins at 50%. Anyone who knows about my thesis research would realize that this really bothers me - vitamins are not good at all levels. We have 100% for a reason. If you exceed that level by too much, the vitamins cause more harm than good, leading to bad diseases, organ damage, and sometimes death. When I found the prenatal vitamins I was very happy to discover a mostly balanced vitamin profile. In taking 2 gummy prenatals, I was able to get 50-100% of all of my major vitamins! And the ones at 50% are vitamins like vitamin E (which most people do not need in supplement form) and the ones at 100% were vitamins like vitamin D (which most people need in supplements in order to meet the recommended intakes). I was so happy to finally have a bottle of gummy vitamins with a decent vitamin profile, and I was happy to have prenatal vitamins that I would be able to take because they were gummy!
But I was wrong. Unfortunately, within about 20 minutes of taking my new prenatal vitamins I began to feel nauseated. It has now been 5 hours since I took my vitamins and I still feel as bad as when I first took them. I think that I am perhaps not meant to take prenatal vitamins, and that I should try to continue through my last 9 weeks of pregnancy with Fred, Dino and Pebbles.
I have been doing really well with my gummy flintstone vitamins. I only got super nauseated from them a couple of times (both times on an empty stomach), and for the last 10-15 weeks I have been able to take them on an empty stomach no problem! It was with this logic, that gummy vitamins are safe, that I decided to purchase gummy prenatal vitamins at the store today.
Not all gummy vitamins are created equal, however. Gummy flintstone vitamins actually don't have a very high vitamin content. This is good and bad. It is good because the vitamins were what was upsetting my stomach, so by taking much smaller doses throughout the day I was able to keep the vitamins down. This is bad because the vitamins are low in vitamins, so in order to get in enough vitamins to match up to my prenatal vitamin I had to take 8 gummy vitamins in a day. This rarely happened. Furthermore, some vitamins in the flintstone gummies were at 50% of the RDA in just one gummy. Other vitamins were at 12.5%. So in order to get 100% of the vitamins at 12.5%, I would get 400% of the vitamins at 50%. Anyone who knows about my thesis research would realize that this really bothers me - vitamins are not good at all levels. We have 100% for a reason. If you exceed that level by too much, the vitamins cause more harm than good, leading to bad diseases, organ damage, and sometimes death. When I found the prenatal vitamins I was very happy to discover a mostly balanced vitamin profile. In taking 2 gummy prenatals, I was able to get 50-100% of all of my major vitamins! And the ones at 50% are vitamins like vitamin E (which most people do not need in supplement form) and the ones at 100% were vitamins like vitamin D (which most people need in supplements in order to meet the recommended intakes). I was so happy to finally have a bottle of gummy vitamins with a decent vitamin profile, and I was happy to have prenatal vitamins that I would be able to take because they were gummy!
But I was wrong. Unfortunately, within about 20 minutes of taking my new prenatal vitamins I began to feel nauseated. It has now been 5 hours since I took my vitamins and I still feel as bad as when I first took them. I think that I am perhaps not meant to take prenatal vitamins, and that I should try to continue through my last 9 weeks of pregnancy with Fred, Dino and Pebbles.
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