My wife age is 39 years and she is having 8th week of pregnancy with all her pregnancy reports are normal. Our gynaecologist has suggested to take her to take medicine Duphaston 10 mg twice a day. Please confirm if my wife can take this medicine or not as one of our relatives told us that a pregnant woman can not take this medicine.

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