Do you really need to take prenatal vitamins when your pregnant?
I have a friend who is 4 weeks pregnant. Her mother, mother-in-law, and husband are all against her taking prenatal vitamins. They think that vitamins have chemicals in them and therefore vitamins are bad for you. They believe as long as the mother eats healthy foods that the baby will be just fine. Her mother and mother-in-law never took any vitamins and their children turned out fine. Background information: My friend is asian and she had one still born birth last year at 5 months. She never took prenatal vitamins during that pregnancy and she thinks that she lost the baby because she had an infection.
