"Women younger than 70 years of age and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding need to get 600 IU (International Units) of vitamin D daily"
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Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D has the following summary
IU | Cumulative Benefit | Blood level | Cofactors | Calcium | $*/month |
200 | Better bones for mom with 600 mg of Calcium | 6 ng/ml increase | Not needed | No effect | $0.10 |
400 | Less Rickets (but not zero with 400 IU) 3X less adolescent Schizophrenia Fewer child seizures | 20-30 ng/ml | Not needed | No effect | $0.20 |
2000 | 2X More likely to get pregnant naturally/IVF 2X Fewer dental problems with pregnancy 8X less diabetes 4X fewer C-sections (>37 ng) 4X less preeclampsia (40 ng vs 10 ng) 5X less child asthma 2X fewer language problems age 5 | 42 ng/ml | Desirable | < 750 mg | $1 |
4000 | 2X fewer pregnancy complications 2X fewer pre-term births | 49 ng/ml | Should have cofactors | < 750 mg | $3 |
6000 | Probable: larger benefits for above items Just enough D for breastfed infant More maternal and infant weight | Should have cofactors | < 750 mg | $4 |
Pregnancy category starts with
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- Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D
- Number of articles in both categories of Pregnancy and:
Dark Skin25 ; Depression 17 ; Diabetes 39 ; Obesity 12 ; Hypertension 35 ; Breathing 29 ; Omega-3 30 ; Vitamin D Receptor 18 - All items in category Infant/Child
606 items - breastfed 887 items as of Jan 2018
- Preeclampsia 825 items as of Jan 2018
- Pre-term 4710 items as of Dec 2018
- "polycystic ovary syndrome" OR PCOS 303 items as of Jan 2018
- Gestational Diabetes
- c-section OR "caesarean section" (various spellings) 937 items as of Aug 2020
- postpartum depression 208 items as of Aug 2018
- Search VitaminDiiki for MISCARRIAGE OR "Spontaneous abortion" 794 as of Feb 2020
- Search Vitamin D Life for "Assisted reproduction" 33 items as of Feb 2017
- Fertility and Sperm category listing has
109 items along with related searches - (Stunting OR “low birth weight” OR LBW) 1180 items as of June 2020
- Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D
- Ensure a healthy pregnancy and baby - take Vitamin D before conception
Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D has the following summary
ProblemReduces Evidence 0. Chance of not conceiving 3.4 times Observe 1. Miscarriage 2.5 times Observe 2. Pre-eclampsia 3.6 times RCT 3. Gestational Diabetes 3 times RCT 4. Good 2nd trimester sleep quality 3.5 times Observe 5. Premature birth 2 times RCT 6. C-section - unplanned 1.6 times Observe Stillbirth - OMEGA-3 4 times RCT - Omega-3 7. Depression AFTER pregnancy 1.4 times RCT 8. Small for Gestational Age 1.6 times meta-analysis 9. Infant height, weight, head size
within normal limitsRCT 10. Childhood Wheezing 1.3 times RCT 11. Additional child is Autistic 4 times Intervention 12.Young adult Multiple Sclerosis 1.9 times Observe 13. Preeclampsia in young adult 3.5 times RCT 14. Good motor skills @ age 3 1.4 times Observe 15. Childhood Mite allergy 5 times RCT 16. Childhood Respiratory Tract visits 2.5 times RCT RCT = Randomized Controlled Trial
Women category starts with the following
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750 items along with related searches - Infant-Child category listing has
606 items along with related searches - Cancer - Breast category listing has
223 items along with related searches - Fertility and sperm category listing has
109 items along with related searches - Cancer - Ovarian category listing has
21 items along with related searches - Calcium and Vitamin D category listing has
192 items along with related searches
Excessive Calcium supplementation is very bad for the body, and not needed by your bones- Search for HRT OR "hormone replacement therapy" 301 items as of Jan 2019
- Search for PCOS 524 as of Feb 2020
- Search for VAGINOSIS 271 as of April 2018
- Search for UTI OR "URINARY TRACT INFECTION" 367 items as of Jan 2019
- PMS decreased when Vitamin D was added
- Endometriosis treated, and perhaps prevented, by vitamin D
- Every one of top 10 female health problems is associated with low Vitamin D
- Overview Women and Vitamin D
- Every one of top 10 female health problems is associated with low Vitamin D
- It is highly unlikely that any of those helath problems could be hleped by 600 IU of Vitamin D
- Overview How Much vitamin D
- 7100 IU (50000 weekly) got most women to 30 ng of vitamin D - Aug 2012
- All preteen aged girls in India taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D got levels above 20 ng – RCT Nov 2018
- Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough – Dec 2017
- 4,000 IU of Vitamin D is OK - 19 organizations agree - 2018
- Vitamin D Recommendations around the world - IU and ng has the following
American College of Nurse‐Midwives continues to state that 600 IU Vitamin D is enough – March 20191140 visitors, last modified 15 Mar, 2019, This page is in the following categories (# of items in each category) - Infant-Child category listing has
- All items in category Infant/Child