I took FA for the first 16 weeks, and bubs is so far healthy and normal. For me I just can't understand why you'd not take it. I got mine for $3 on perscription, so for the price of a cup of coffee it's hardly expensive. I had no adverse health effects (unsurprising as none have been conclusively linked to taking FA), and the pills are teeny tiny so not a problem to swallow.
My mum was part of the FA trials with Otago Uni back in 1981 (when pregnant with me), so when you think it has been used in human pregnancies (not just animal trials) for close to 30 years, and MWs, docs, OBs etc recommend you take it, why wouldn't you? If I can do this one small thing to save my baby's life I think it would be irresponsible of me not to.
I read that article you linked to and I think I would have been more convinced if he hadn't been peddling his own vitamin supplements.
I guess you have to weigh it up like everything else in life. Personally I know how sick I get during the 1st trimester and so would always take it (even if there is a small associated risk) as I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be getting enough folate from other sources and would rather take an artificial supplement than risk not taking it when the research is so substantially in favour of taking it.
I think also if you are going to look at stats you need to look at those in a country where they don't regularly take folic acid as obviously the incidents of babies born with neural tube defects in this country would be low because most women take folic acid or find the stats from before they starting recommending its use.
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