Help, I've taken vitamin A for 20 weeks of pregnancy!

Prenatal have vitamin A
Recommended dosage is 8000iu
If you eat a lot of carrots, sweet potatoes, red peppers, spinach, mangoes, (among others can't remember off the top of my head) you don't need additional supplements.

The one food I know you should not eat while pregnant is liver because it is very high is vitamin A

Vitamin A is also called retinol, so if you have a lot of food that is fortified with retinol, you could be over the daily limit

Surely if they’re pregnant vitamins they should be safe to take? They can’t sell them if they were dangerously high in vitamins that you shouldn’t take. What ones are you taking?

Try not to panic the 20 week scan would have picked something up x

Don’t panic yet. Everything will be alright but you can stop taking the vit A. But baby will definitely be alright

Food scientist here. Please chill and try to breathe. Do you mean to say you are taking extra vitamin A on top of your usual prenatal vitamins? If so, please don't unless prescribed by a doctor, there's no need! Your prenatals will cover your needs.

If you mean to say it's your prenatals that contain vitamin A, this is just a failsafe. Pregnancy vitamins are obviously safe to take during pregnancy. Single ingredient doses on top of that are not necessary.

Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluble and they don't get excreted easily, they accumulate in your system. This is why typically we want to be careful of taking too much in high doses. However, you would have to be taking a supremely high dose over a long period of time to cause problems for yourself or your baby. Especially while you are pregnant and gaining weight, you are putting on fat, and excess vitamins will accumulate in your extra fat tissue.

Please don't stress! You and baby will be just fine.

Go to A&E. They can do a scan. They see pregnant women at anytime if she feels herself and baby are not doing well or for even the littlest reason. Just get yourself checked.

Thank you so much everyone! Really appreciate your help, I've got an appointment with my midwife tomorrow morning so will run it past her xx

it wouldn’t be A&E.. after 18 weeks you can go to maternity for anything. They will scan her there

That’s what I meant