Horse Pills

All the news coverage in the past week about the link between prenatal vitamins and childhood cancer has convinced me to start back on the damn pills. I know there were all ready plenty of reasons for taking them but somehow the following factors outweighed all of those:


- They even look disgusting; Motrin comes in a happy orange colour why do they have to look like something made of recycled cardboard.

- They are horse pills! Why do they have to make them so big, I would be more likely to take 2 or 3 little pills than face that big gag-inducing horse pill?

- It’s a pain to buy them. Why to prenatal vitamins have to be kept behind the counter when every other supplement and vitamin are kept in the isle?

- I can’t remember to take them if they are not out where I can see them, but if I leave them out people assume I’m pregnant.

- There is something optimistic about taking a pill in anticipation of becoming pregnant, after a while this optimism wears a little thin.

- Lots of people just get pregnant without all of the planning and only start taking the vitamins when they find out they are pregnant.

I know these are very lame reasons but all the same I stopped. Now that the research shows you can reduce the risk of cancer up to 47% for some types of cancer. I don’t know what it is about cancer that is scarier than all the other diseases and birth defects that were previously linked to a lack of folic acid. I just tell myself to suck it up and swallow the damn pill.