The practice I go to for prenatal care has you meet with midwives for the first few appointments and their OBs take over for the rest of your care. Initially my midwide had mentioned Fish oils were an adequate source of DHA during pregnancy. At the time, I was on a DHA supplement but with that info have since switched to fish oils out of convenience (DH takes fish oils so its just easier to have them around).

Getting to the point, at my last appointment I asked my OB what dosage I should be following for the fish oils and I was surprised by her response. Basically, she told me there's no universal recommendation, or even recognition, that DHA is beneficial during pregnancy. She said it isn't considered to be harmful either, but insisted it really doesn't matter if I take them or not.

Has anyone been given/read similar information? It kind of goes against everything I've been lead to believe and I don't really know what to make of it. I'm planning to continue taking them, but now I'm really curious whether this is more or less her personal opinion, or something that's more widely accepted.