Healthy Babies

Nutrients help ensure healthy, normal size, full-term babies

Multivitamins reduce chances of preterm births - Doctors said about one in eight U.S. babies is born prematurely—before 37 weeks—and in this study wanted to see if taking multivitamins just before or after becoming pregnant could reduce small-for-gestational-age and preterm babies. In the study, 35,897 women reported the multivitamins they took during the six weeks just before and six weeks after becoming pregnant. Compared to women who did not take multivitamins, women with pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) scores no higher than 25 who took multivitamins regularly before and after becoming pregnant were 16 percent less likely to have a preterm birth, and 20 percent less likely to have...

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