The amount of B6 in pre-natal vitamins is probably tiny compared with if you buy it as a single vitamin. I was on 100mgs daily to get the anti-sickness effect. My friend took 50mgs daily and it helped her. It is above the recommended amount but I did a lot of reading and found that damage was only done if you took 1,000mgs or more daily (in massive doses like that it can cause seizure in the baby and peripheral neuropathy, i.e pins and needles and altered sensations in the lower limbs and hands in pregnant women). So I felt comfortable that what I was taking would be fine. My son was 9lbs, 1oz, fit into 0-3 months clothes straight away, was trying to lift his head up at birth and had these really cute, fat hamster cheeks. He was so healthy and the birth was easy and virtually painless - it was a lot easier than the pregnancy!
Feeling so sick 24/7 is frightening and emotionally exhausting and people don't tend to be sympathetic because you chose to get pregnant and also they think pregnant women should just put up with it, without realising how hard it is. I couldn't sleep in my last pregnancy because my stomach hurt so much and the nausea kept me awake. I was blubbing to anyone who would listen that I did not want to be pregnant (I wanted my baby and had wanted to have one for 3 years but had lost a previous baby), I kept bursting into tears all the time and the baby's dad would say 'It's only another so many weeks, you can do it!' I just shouted at him that I wanted HIM to do it instead of me. I said I'd had four, now it was his turn. I was completely irrational! I think unless someone has been through severe sickness, they shouldn't judge.
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The amount of B6 in pre-natal vitamins is probably tiny compared with if you buy it as a single vitamin. I was on 100mgs daily to get the anti-sickness effect. My friend took 50mgs daily and it helped her. It is above the recommended amount but I did a lot of reading and found that damage was only done if you took 1,000mgs or more daily (in massive doses like that it can cause seizure in the baby and peripheral neuropathy, i.e pins and needles and altered sensations in the lower limbs and hands in pregnant women). So I felt comfortable that what I was taking would be fine. My son was 9lbs, 1oz, fit into 0-3 months clothes straight away, was trying to lift his head up at birth and had these really cute, fat hamster cheeks. He was so healthy and the birth was easy and virtually painless - it was a lot easier than the pregnancy!
Feeling so sick 24/7 is frightening and emotionally exhausting and people don't tend to be sympathetic because you chose to get pregnant and also they think pregnant women should just put up with it, without realising how hard it is. I couldn't sleep in my last pregnancy because my stomach hurt so much and the nausea kept me awake. I was blubbing to anyone who would listen that I did not want to be pregnant (I wanted my baby and had wanted to have one for 3 years but had lost a previous baby), I kept bursting into tears all the time and the baby's dad would say 'It's only another so many weeks, you can do it!' I just shouted at him that I wanted HIM to do it instead of me. I said I'd had four, now it was his turn. I was completely irrational! I think unless someone has been through severe sickness, they shouldn't judge.
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