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I had them and my midwife asked me to get something better as soon as I could keep something more down. I ended up getting these Spring Valley prenatal vitamins from walmart, they have more good stuff and they actually aren't that hard to take. I have had major problems with nausea too and they have a coating that makes them so you can't really smell them, they aren't that huge and for me they were actually easier to handle than the gummies.

I don't think the gummies have Iron in them so I ended up using a supplement and then ended up switched back to a pill with iron. They definitely go done easier than any of the horse pills though!

Rainbow Light brand prenatals are very easy on the stomach, and if you get the “petite” sized pills, the pills are pretty manageably sized (you have to take 3 vs. 1 pill a day, but they are easier to take than a big horsepill!).

If your main concern is folic acid levels, you could just take a folic acid supplement instead of a multi-vit prenatal. I take Nature’s something brand, and the pills are very small. I take 2 at once and have no issues either taking them or with nausea.

@carrieknitscake: I second Rainbow Light. They never made me nauseous. I tried the VitaFusion gummies before and I think they don't have any iron.

@mrsjazz: Yep, no iron, low DHA amount, and calcium I believe. I just felt that they weren't doing anything for me to get my body ready for pregnancy. I went back to my Trader Joe's Fish Oil pill when I started Rainbow Light. I've always gotten them cheap at Target too. I grabbed extra folic acid for when I drink green tea, but my doctor told that it wasn't necessary.

I got super nauseous when I took pills so I switched over to gummies. As long as you're getting the required amount of folic acid you should be fine!

I have the VitaFusion gummies and I think they taste disgusting. They have this sugar stuff on the outside and I hate it. I prefer the taste of the regular One A Day gummies way better.

@tana_bk: It's the after taste/ coating it leaves in my mouth that I hate the most lol

I've been taking the vitafusion gummies for over a year now. I love them. I don't care about them not having iron since I get enough iron thru diet, but if I didn't I would take an iron supplement. I love the taste and I have such trouble swallowing giant pills so that is why I selected these!

Well this explains why I was low on iron! I ended up taking an iron pill though.

I used them because I'm awful at swallowing pills. Although it wasn't easy to take those either because like @tana_bk said they're pretty gross.

My doctor recommended them- everything else made me throw up. He said his wife takes them, so if it was good enough for his wife and kid, its good enough for me.

I use them but I don't know if I'll continue to after I am actually pregnant. They work fine for my current ttc stage though!

I also used Rainbow Light. They're a bit cheaper if you get them on Amazon, too.

I took them for a while when I was super sick during the first and part of second trimesters and they were the only ones I could (mostly) keep down. Now, I just take a regular multi. I asked my doc if it was really necessary to take double the amounts of regular vitamins in a prenatal, and she said no as long as I'm getting enough folic acid. I eat a ton of bread and cereal, so the folic acid component is under control Some people think it isn't necessary to supplement with vitamins at all. I do just to be on the safe side, but I would say the gummies are fine if that's what you can take.