Did Your Mother Take "Vitamins" During Pregnancy?
Thursday November 6, 2003
DES: Exposure Risk and Consequences
Did your mother take "vitamins" during her pregnancy? Of course, all women should take good prenatal vitamins during pregnancy. But many women who were pregnant between 1938 and 1971 took vitamins that were not vitamins at all. Physicians often told women they were taking vitamins when what they were really taking was diethystilbestrol, more commonly referred to as DES.
Did your mother take "vitamins" during her pregnancy? Of course, all women should take good prenatal vitamins during pregnancy. But many women who were pregnant between 1938 and 1971 took vitamins that were not vitamins at all. Physicians often told women they were taking vitamins when what they were really taking was diethystilbestrol, more commonly referred to as DES.
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