Doctors advice expectant mothers to take pregnancy prenatal vitamins for her health as well as that of her baby's. Prenatal vitamins are specially made multivitamins that make up for any nutritional deficiency in an expecting mother's diet. While prenatal supplements consist of both vitamins as well as minerals, they are important because of their folic acid, calcium and iron content.
Pregnant women who take a good prenatal multivitamin during pregnancy are unknowingly reducing the risk of giving birth to babies with a low birth weight. With new studies and reports popping up every year with regards to prenatal pregnancy care, this analysis was based on the data collected from studies taken across the globe. Each one of these studies compared those babies whose mothers were regularly taking prenatal vitamins and multivitamins to those who only took prenatal iron-folic supplements or a placebo.
The average birth weight of those babies whose mothers regularly took the multivitamins was at least 2 ounces more than that of those babies whose mothers depended on the iron-folic supplementation. The results showed that mothers who regularly take prenatal multivitamins have at least 17 to 19 percent chances of reducing the risk of low birth weight in their babies, as compares to those mothers who do not take these supplements.
Low birth weight in babies and such complications are considered to be the number one cause of premature death in children aged 5 and below. So, for those of you who are soon expecting to give birth to a healthy baby that is not underweight, prenatal vitamins and multivitamins are the way to go!
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