The Pill

31 weeks and counting...only 9 weeks left!

So for those who know me well, know my deep dark secret...

...I cannot take a pill to save my life. I just can't. And so taking daily doses of my prenatal vitamins that are literally the size of horsepills? You've got to be kidding. But of course, I do it. Every night it's a battle, ask the hubby.

So here's the evening ritual. I pretend to forget about even needing to take the vitamin, but of course, the hubby always remembers to remind me. So we go to the kitchen and prepare, cause there's a lot of preparation involved to take this 1 horse-sized gargantuan of a pill. I NEED to have a flavored drink to wash it down. I do not understand people who can just swallow a pill without any liquid, and I cannot just use water, cause contrary to other's beliefs, I CAN TASTE THE PILL! So my flavored drink of choice throughout this whole pregnancy is apple juice. SO I have my apple juice on hand, and then of course, I need my chaser. I mean even with the apple juice, I can still get the aftertaste of the pill, so I need a chaser. And currently, I choose pretzels.

So it's basically like taking a shot of tequila. There's a process. You lick the salt, take the shot, then suck the lime, right? It's no different for me and a pill. I take a sip of my apple juice, take the pill WHILE I am downing more apple juice, and then chase it with a pretzel. Though that middle step - it's much more complicated. For some reason, my throat knows that pill is coming and somehow closes and will not let me swallow that pill. So it's A LOT of regurgitating until that sucker goes down.

As I said, it's an ordeal EVERY night. Even now, 31 weeks into it.

The sad part is, I learned this from watching my sis take pills, and even sadder is that I already see my niece experiencing the same when she needs to take pills. And the saddest part is, our kid will probably learn the same from me.

I say it's because I happen to have extremely sensitive taste buds. My family and friends say, it's mental. Moral of the story? Can they please make flintstone-like gummy prenatal vitamins?