Importance of folic acid.

filobabe · May 17, 2008 11:29AM

maynoschil i have to take 5mg too as i am diabetic which leads to an increased risk of spina bifida. Only took 400mcg in last pregnancy which was 4 years ago, so research changes all the time. 400mcg is the minimum ladies should take and def try and get more through foodstuffs. plus if any ladies are taking trimethoprim for a urine infection and are pg they should increase their dose as the tablet reduces the amount of folic acid in the body.
Filo x

maynoschik · May 17, 2008 11:33AM

That is really good advice bout the trimethoprim filo.

Ty very much.xx

maynoschik · May 18, 2008 2:52PM

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maynoschik · May 18, 2008 4:45PM

Just bumping up again for newbies!!

maynoschik · May 19, 2008 9:47AM

And again!xx

maynoschik · May 22, 2008 5:34AM

Hopeforbump2 · May 22, 2008 7:27AM

Hi, thank you so much for the advise. So sorry about your story. When i was pregnant with our 1st we had recently MC so i didn't think i would be pregnant so soon. I wasn't taking folic acid until about week 7 or 8. This really worried me. Thankfully our little girl is perfect in every way but now ttc no 2 i'm already on it. Hope you have a wonderful 9 months xx Megs xx

maynoschik · May 22, 2008 1:32PM

Thanks very much Megs, it's good that my story is now having a positive effect, i wish you lots of luck while ttc.xx

maynoschik · May 23, 2008 1:37PM

Bumping up again for any newbies.xxxx

Importance of folic acid.

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