02 August 2018 02 Aug 2018

Overcoming the barriers of vitamin D in pregnancy: A midwifery public health perspective

Guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2008, 2017a; 2017b) and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (2014a) recommends vitamin D supplementation to all pregnant women in the UK Internationally, however, there is much dispute as to whether this is of benefit to mother and fetus/neonate, and indeed the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend routine antenatal supplementation (WHO, 2016)