Folic acid and vitamin D deficiency are two of the most common types of deficiency in the World, and the incidence is even greater on pregnant women. Some of the advice doctors nowadays give to pregnant women is to take proper folic acid supplementation along with special multivitamins formulated for pregnant women that provide extra sums of vitamins for this particular stage of life.
Folic acid has been proved to work in reducing the risk of miscarriage and birth defects. This folic acid is primarily found on leafy vegetables and also in the form of supplements you can get at your local drugstore.
Vitamin D on the other hand is of primary importance to the development and strengthening of muscles and bones in the body. We mainly get this vitamin through healthy sun exposure, so we must go out there and let the Sun do its work on us. If mothers fail to provide their children with vitamin D, they could end up developing a vitamin D deficiency disease called rickets, in which children have bowed legs and weak bones.
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