| Most women develop a glow while they are pregnant | | | | in. |
| and many people attribute that glow to living well. Most | | | | Women will begin taking prenatal vitamins during the |
| women who are expecting a child realize that they will | | | | first three months of pregnancy and some might |
| need a new style of eating that is nutritious for both | | | | continue taking the vitamins and supplements found in |
| the parent and the child. The glow that radiates on the | | | | prenatal vitamins for months afterward, and this is |
| surface of the skin is due to an influx in blood pressure | | | | especially true if the woman plans to breastfeed her |
| and the vitamins and supplements that are taken | | | | child. Most women might not be aware though that all |
| during pregnancy. | | | | prenatal vitamins do not contain the same dosages of |
| Some women feel safer by taking prenatal vitamins | | | | the vitamins and supplements that they will need during |
| during their pregnancy. Not all of the health benefits of | | | | pregnancy. |
| vitamins and minerals are known, and physicians | | | | Babies will consume a large quantity of calcium from |
| prescribe some of them separately from a prenatal | | | | their mother's body during the pregnancy. On the |
| vitamin just to be on the safe side. Every pregnancy is | | | | average, a woman will need between 1200 mgs to |
| different and the anatomy of each woman is different | | | | 1500 mgs of calcium everyday. Prenatal vitamins fall |
| too. The nutritional requirements of women will vary | | | | short on this requirement because they typically will |
| because some women are in better physical condition | | | | contain a dosage of 250 mg of calcium, and a woman |
| than other women are at the onset of their pregnancy. | | | | must supplement her diet with calcium-enriched |
| Some women plan to become pregnant and make | | | | products such as yogurt, milk, or puddings made from |
| sure that their diets are rich in nutrients and low in fat. | | | | whole milk products. |
| They realize that their bodies will change over the | | | | Women should reap the health benefits of vitamins |
| course of nine months and that they need to prepare | | | | and minerals while pregnant because their bodies are |
| it to do the job that it will be challenged to do. A | | | | forming a child. A child would benefit from a vitamin |
| woman might take vitamins everyday just to ensure | | | | supplement like folic acid because it has properties that |
| that their body has the tools on hand to fight off | | | | will help ward off any birth defects during the |
| infection, and give a baby a safer environment to live | | | | pregnancy. |