6 Ways to Prepare Your Body (Hers and His) For Pregnancy

The best time to start taking prenatal vitamins isn’t when you see those two pink lines—it’s actually before you get pregnant. By the same token, new parents shouldn’t stop taking prenatal vitamins when that sweet baby is finally in their arms. Here’s what to know about starting—and stopping—prenatal vitamins.

Women who plan on having children are well aware of their biological click, that maddening tick-tick-tick in the background that serves as a constant reminder of just how quickly time is passing. And while it’s true that fertility changes over our lifetimes, and peak productive years for women are somewhere between the early 20s and early 30s, that’s not the end of the story. Surprise—men have a biological clock too.

Science is changing the way we approach fertility and prenatal health and tells us that adequate nutrients play a big part of the pregnancy equation. At Beli, we know it takes two, which is why optimizing both female and male nutrition gives you the best chance at successful pregnancy outcomes.

You might be shocked to hear it, but many of the popular prenatal vitamins so aggressively marketed to pregnant women today don’t meet current nutrient levels a number of key nutrients, according to both the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Choline is one of them.