TAKE YOUR PRENATAL VITAMINS, even before you are pregnant to help prevent birth defects and keep you and your baby healthy during your pregnancy & beyond! Expectant Mamas it is hard to eat perfectly, especially with nausea, aversions, indigestion & reflux. Prenatal vitamins, with folic acid, fill in the nutritional gaps keeping you and baby strong & decreasing your baby's risk of a neural tube deficit, like spina bifida. Bonus, they may help decrease your risk of pre-eclampsia too.