Really... who thought these were a good idea? It's so exciting to buy your first pack of prenatals, finally thinking about starting a family. Scary, exciting, intimidating... then you take your first prenatal vitamin and quickly change your mind. They are almost always pepto bismal pink, almost an inch long, and have an indescribable nasty odor. Once they hit your stomach, you are immediately a little queezy. You start to wonder, oh no, could I already be pregnant? Within 10 minutes you are passed slightly nauseated and you are ready to bend over the toilet. You have horrible heart burn and you start belching. And not just small little burps, loud, noisy, smelly, gurgly, grandpa burps. At this point you are completely convinced you are pregnant and are on your way to target for a 3 pack of pregnancy tests. After peeing on the 2nd stick, you realize "oh yeah! I took a prenatal vitamin this morning." With your own elevated blood pressure and husband with a migrain, you eat a little something and all symptoms subside. Only to wake up the next morning to a similar scenario. This continues for several weeks until you have no money left to spend on pregnancy tests.
once pregnant, prenatal vitamins become just that. PRE natal. There is no chance of keeping these disgusting, massive, nausea inducing monsters down when you are already spending more than half of your day hugging the toilet bowl. You lie to your doctor, "of course I am taking my vitamins..." You try a few rounds of flinstones vitamins only to puke those up and realize that there isn't much worse than vitamins the 2nd time around (except maybe broccoli).
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