RDA calls for pregnant women to get 2 mg of additional niacin a day, and 0.3 and 0.4 mg more of riboflavin and thiamine. Deficiencies in pregnant women found an increase incidence of vomiting during pregnancy, premature births, and still births. Milk, cheese, meats, wheat germ, whole grains and leafy green vegetables. These two vitamins work closely together. Good for expanding blood volume that is needed to support the fetus and placenta.
Folic acid is necessary to prevent spina bifida.
Leafy vegetables, orange juice, fortified cereals, and liver. Vitamin D Required for skeletal growth. 10 micrograms Deficiency can result in rickets in newborn infants Milk, cereal, and sunlight Vitamin E Important for normal neurological development. The fetus may draw as much as 13 mg of calcium from the mother an hour. Milk, cheese, kale, collard, spinach, beet greens, rhubarb, leafy vegetables, and broccoli.