@XxFireXboltxX@xanga - I actually went out and bought one of those pill boxes that indicate what you should take each day of the week. hehe :) I am constantly forgetting to take my vitamins!

I was good about taking my vitamins when I was pregnant the first time.  After he was born I didn't take another vitamin again until I was trying to get pregnant with my next child.  I was told to continue taking them after delivery and I did for awhile and then it was really hit and miss until August when started trying to get pregnant again.  I know I should take them but it so hard to remember when I am not doing them for somebody else.

I never took vitaminns during any of my pregnancies, while nursing (which I've been doing for over 3 years now between my 3 younger ones) or any other time in my life. My OB and midwife have always advised against it. They recomended a good diet instead because only tiny amounts of those vitamins are even able to be absorbed in pill form. 

@hatcherbee@xanga - I agree, food is undoubtedly the best source of vitamins!! But a nutritionist who spoke to my medical school class last week said that vitamin D is just about the only thing that she advises people to get through supplements. It's not as easy to get in your daily diet as other vitamins are....  Unless you're lucky enough to live in a sunny environment and can get your daily dose through the sun! Wish I could!! :)

I take a multi vitamin almost everyday.  I have to take it after I eat, so usually I wait until after lunch.  I actually just keep the bottle on the desk next to the computer so I remember to take them.

i prefer to get my vitamins from my food.  i find it's actually a good motivator to eat healthy.  i focus on eating all the colors of vegetables and getting my vitamin d from sunshine and i'm better for it.  d. 

yes, there is vitamin d in the rays of the sun.  we're more similar to plants than we think.    vitamin d is necessary to grow strong bones but did you know so is exercise.  elderly women are often told to exercise and strength train to stave off osteoporosis.  medical research shows that, it  turns out many kids don't because a) they're never outdoors and b) parents were putting sunscreen on them even for things like going to the grocery store.  soak up the natural rays and you're all set. 

I'm really good about taking vitamins when I'm NOT pregnant.  Almost every day.  However, when I'm pregnant, they make me SOOOO nauseous.  The only time I can stomach them is if I can take them with a really big meal (and I mean a huge, heavy meal).  I tried taking one last night with my nightly zofran (for morning sickness) and I was MISERABLE for about four hours.  Ugh, it's just not worth it!  Both of my other kids turned out fine without the prenatals, so I hope this one will too.

Flintstones vitamins!

If you are nursing, it is just as important to take a prenatal. I know you are no longer nursing, but for the mothers whom are.

As for me, I make sure to get 100% of my vitamins from food. If I am traveling, I take a whole food green-powder (it's vegetables freeze-dried and ground) with me. You absorb the nutrition better from food, it is healthier and more natural. They have it loose, and in capsules. So yes, I take vitamins but in another form.

I put my vitamins in one of those little pill boxes like old people use.  I put it in the junk food cabinet because I open it every day to make my hubby's lunch.  I also put my daughter's vitamin in with mine in the pill box because even if I don't remember mine, I will remember hers.