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I often get asked which is the best vitamin to take for both pregnancy and postpartum. Optimal nutrition is vital to a healthy pregnancy, the healthy development of your baby, and for maintaining optimal function in the mother both during pregnancy and during lactation. Since perinatal nutrition is complex, I simplified it for you! I looked at the nutrient content of six popular pre/postnatal vitamins and evaluated them for optimal perinatal support. My thoughts are outlined

When you see your doctor during pregnancy/postpartum, the main advice is: make sure you take a prenatal! Truthfully, that’s not bad advice. But, it completely lacks the nuance required and neglects the essential discussion on proper nutrition during pregnancy and postpartum. The Standard American Diet is highly refined, stripping valuable nutrients from food and rendering it, more or less, dead. The quick-digesting carbohydrates void of naturally-occurring vitamins and minera

Many of us hear “vitamin A” and think “beta-carotene”, the orange-pigment in vegetables like carrots and butternut squash that we were...