Checklist before conception

Before you conceive, start on your prenatal supplements – folic acid, essential vitamins and minerals and ensure all immunizations are up to date.

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So starting on prenatal supplements at least two months before, and they should contain folic acid and some other essential vitamins and multi-minerals and make sure that immunizations are up to date. They’re immune to rubella, chickenpox, and also do some blood tests to make sure there’s no thyroid disorder or a tendency to diabetes and some are any other deficiencies like, you know, low hemoglobin.

It’s a good idea to know that you are not a carrier of thalassemia trait because that is something that should, one should be aware of before one gets pregnant and that one is husband or partner is not also a carrier of a similar condition, and then you’re good to go.