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Do prenatals prevent birth defects? please, need some answers?
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Not specifically: Prenatal vitamins help assure that you and your baby have enough of the vitamin factors needed to make it through pregnancy as healthy as possible. Without them, there is a good chance the pregnancy will draw all it needs from your body and you will end up depleted of calcium and other factors.It does not guarantee that no birth defects may occur.Folate (folic acid) helps reduce the risk of open spine defects
Answered 9/28/2016
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