Folate

How early before TTC did you start taking folate or a pregnancy supplement like Elevit?

We made a relatively late decision to TTC this month so I'll only get about three weeks of Elevit in before I ovulate. I hope this is ok.

I know loads of babies are born healthy with no folate at all (accidental pregnancies etc - Alex was a 'surprise' after all and he turned out ok) but after my mc earlier this year I'm a bit paranoid.

I started taking folic acid 2 weeks before I ovulated and conceived in January. Then when I miscarried I just kept taking it, so I'd been taking it for 5 months already when I got pregnant this time. You should be fine taking it just 3 weeks before ovulating though, like you say a lot of people don't start taking anything till they find out they're pregnant already!

You don't really need to spend loads of $ on elevit. All you need is a script from your doc for folic acid ($3) and lots of docs are fine if you just ring and ask for it.

As long as you have a good diet you don't need all the other crap in elevit and if you raelly do want to take a multivitamin there are other pregnancy multi v's that are cheaper, lots cheaper!

I personally wouldnt worry about those small ammounts of iron- even 60mg is nothing,...like u said tonnes of people end up taking iron tablets during pregnancy and they have 200mg each.