Top 6 Prenatal Vitamins of 2020
These supplements pack folic acid and DHA for a healthy pregnancy.
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When you’re expecting, you want to give the tiny creature growing inside of you everything he or she needs to develop into a healthy baby, but what if the only thing you can keep down are saltines and chocolate donuts? The struggle is real — it’s totally normal to find it difficult to meet nutrient needs, especially if you’re experiencing morning sickness (or all-day-long waves of nausea!). Prenatal vitamins are designed to fill in the gaps. They keep you "covered" for whatever you can’t take in from food, and provide nutritional support for you and your baby, particularly when your normal eating routine gets tough to plan for and changes daily. Here are six prenatal vitamins to try.
One A Day Women's Prenatal Complete Multivitamin
This two-for-one pack has multivitamin tablets containing folic acid, calcium, and iron plus liquid gels containing crucial DHA/EPA.
Garden of Life Organic Prenatal Multivitamin Supplement
These certified organic, non-GMO, vegan vitamins are made from whole-food ingredients including guava, basil, and beet. They are packed with folic acid, iron, iodine, but you'll need to add on your own DHA and choline.
If you don't feel up to eating fish, this soft-gel supplement gives you all the DHA you need.
This well-rounded vitamin is also low-priced and verified by USP.
While not specifically marketed as prenatal, these have almost everything you need at an extremely wallet-friendly price.
If the thought of gulping down yet another pill makes you gag, pour one 250-mg packet in your beverage once a day for extra DHA/EPA. Needed offers a subscription service to make it easy.
Marisa Cohen is a contributing editor in the Hearst Lifestyle Group’s Health Newsroom, who has covered health, nutrition, parenting, and the arts for dozens of magazines and websites over the past two decades. She has also appeared on two game shows, has seen more than 400 Broadway shows, and really wishes she knew how to tap dance.
