Pregnancy vitamins

I have been suffering a lot with sickness. My midwife mentioned at my booking appointment that the pregnancy vitamins can sometimes make it worse and a lot of them are actually not necessarily needed - just folic acid and vitamin D.
Since then I have swapped my usual Pregnacare for Boots folic acid and vitamin D. I have noticed a massive difference and feel much less nauseas! However, I feel as though not getting all the vitamins must be a negative for me and baby.
Anyone else in same position?

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I have heard this too! Although still taking pregnacare max everydayšŸ˜‚šŸ™ƒ the nausea is kicking my ass big time!!

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I take Pregnacare Max daily straight after I’ve had my dinner. It’s never caused me nausea, but I’ve heard it can if you don’t take it with a meal! If you weren’t doing that before then that could make a difference ā˜ŗļø You could also look at other pregnancy multi vitamins & read some reviews specifically linked to nausea to see if there’s a better alternative x

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All big tablets make me gag at the moment so I’ve had to do the same šŸ˜…

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l felt awful taking pregnacare last pregnancy and swapped for an own brand supermarket one (like tesco prenatal vitamin). Funnily enough even the pregnacare bf vitamins postpartum made me feel awful so just took a standard multivit instead!

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I’ve only had folic acid and vitamin d for my first two pregnancies - had two easy births, healthy babies, no problems with them at all, good immune systems (they were also ebf so that could contribute)

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I can’t manage any tablets at the moment so have swapped to the Known gummies, anything is better than nothing I think!

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Im not taking anything at all right now as my nausea and sickness has gotten so bad ā˜¹ļø

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