The Folic Acid Deception
Language: en
My husband and I had been trying for a baby for three years without a single positive result. It wasn't until I took my daily folic acid supplement in front of my best friend—who happens to be a doctor—that the truth came out. She snatched the bottle from my hand, frowned, and crushed a pill into powder. "Grace, this isn't folic acid. This is birth control." I listened to her and sent the pills to a lab for testing. It turned out I had been taking contraceptives for three years. These pills were given to me by Julian. Every time before we were intimate, he would coax me into taking…