Tomorrow is our first doctor's appointment. With all the advice online about how important nutrition is to a healthy pregnancy, I wonder why most obstetricians won't schedule a first appointment before 10 weeks (or whatever). At least give a phone call, or send-out some documentation... if Mary and I hadn't been proactive and/or hadn't had access to good information, it's quite probable we'd be putting the pregnancy (or the fetus) at risk during the most important time for fetal development.
So I can draw two possible conclusions: either we ("we" as a society) don't care that much about the prenatal health for under-privileged & under-educated individuals, OR... it's all ridiculous and having exactly the right balance of pholic acids, etc. just doesn't matter that much. When I think of all the healthy babies born in parts of the world where people, including pregnant women, get no real health care, and suffer from poor nutrition, I begin to suspect the latter conclusion is more valid.
So when faced with the decision to buy no prenatal vitamins, $12 prenatal vitamins, or $40 prenatal vitamins, what did we do? We went with the expensive vitamins, of course!
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