Pregnant Women Who Take Vitamin D Supplements Have “Natural Deliveries” – New Study

There are lots of healthy tips to look out for when a woman is pregnant. In order to have a safe natural delivery, a pregnant woman is adviced to eat well, keep fit, get enough sleep, reduce stress etc.

According to a new research, pregnant women who add vitamin D supplement to their prenatal supplement are more likely to deliver their babies ‘naturally’.

A placebo or an additional 1,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D per day during pregnancy were randomly assigned to 965 women in the Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study (MAVIDOS) experiment, which was reported in the Journal of Public Health.

MAVIDOS is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy women.

According to the analysis, 65.6 percent of the women who took extra vitamin D spontaneously gave birth vaginally, or “naturally,” as opposed to 57.9 percent of the women who received a placebo.

Compared to the placebo group, 13.2% fewer women in the vitamin D group had assisted deliveries (19.4 percent).

Nevertheless, the proportion of women in each group who required a caesarean section to deliver their child was comparable (vitamin D 21.3 per cent, placebo 22.7 per cent).

Clinical professor Dr. Rebecca Moon of the University of Southampton’s MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Center said:

“Most women want to have a ‘natural delivery’ of their baby. Our work suggests that taking extra vitamin D during their pregnancy might help them to achieve this.

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“The women taking the extra vitamin D also had less blood loss after delivery, highlighting why this is so important. Further evidence is now needed to more thoroughly inform public health policy and clinical practice.”

MAVIDOS, a significant experiment looking into the advantages of vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy, involved researchers from the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton.

So when next you get pregnant or know someone that is pregnant let them know to add Vitamin D to their prenatal supplement.