Pre-Pregnancy vitamins any recommendations?

[Leonora94]

Hello, I'm new here so bare with me just getting the hang of all the abbreviations...starting TTC and am a bit overwhelmed with the amount of different pre-pregnancy vitamins/folic acid tablets out there. Was just wondering if anyone could recommend a particular brand or one that includes everything?

Age 23
TTC no. 1

My doctor has told me just folic acid and vitamin d are recommended by nhs. Some woman have reported issues with cycles on pregnacare and they are quite expensive. You can buy a combined folic acid and vitamin d tablet from boots that aren’t too expensive.

@Mrsjones17 Okay great thank you, I did think they seemed quite expensive. Is it just Boots own brand?

Yeah boots own brand. Personally I found vitamin d tablets upset my stomach so I now use a spray instead but I have a very sensitive tummy!

Pregnacare totally messed up my cycle - perfect 30 day cycles suddenly became greater than 40 days and last month I didn't have a period at all!

My GP said folic acid and vit d is all that's needed unless you already know you have a deficiency.

Okay brilliant thank you both for your help, I don't want to take something that starts messing up my cycle as I've only just got regular and at a point where I can start ttc. Will venture to Boots on my way home from work!

I just took folic acid when TTC. Once I got BFP I took pregnacare for the first trimester, then just vitamin D after 13 weeks.

I have the boots own folic acid tablets :) I really need to get myself some vitamin D too as I wasn’t aware that this was also recommended! That’ll be boots own for me too :) x

Trips to Boots all round then Should you not carry on taking folic acid and vitamin D after you get a BFP or is it best to move on to a more specialised ones?

GP said carry on throughout (folic acid stops at the end of the first trimester) but as and when I'm lucky enough to fall pregnant I will double check!

I got my vit d stupidly cheap from Holland and Barrett in the penny sale.

I didn't think of Holland and Barrett will pop in see if there doing a penny sale. I'm super excited but also terrified about starting to try but from lurking and reading other comments I gather it's a normal feeling. Good Luck @JustLikeTheySaid !

I have the Seven Seas Trying For A Baby Vitamins I take them with my evening meal no stomach issues with them and normally I have stomach issues with vitamin/herbal stuff. They have iron, folic acid and vitamin D. I decided to try ones with Iron in as I'm vegetarian so a little extra iron wasn't going to do me any harm.

I'm veggie too thanks for the recommendation!

Seven seas completely muck up my cycle, adding on 8 ish days to an already longer than average cycle! I now use boots follic acid with vit d in.

I've actually found pregnacare to be really good. I guess it's just down to personal experience. It's worth a go. Most of them have all similar levels of the vitamins and minerals if you read the boxes. An own brand one is probably just as good.

Thanks for all your help, I’ve just bought Boots own folic acid & vitimin D will let you know how I get on!