I know how important it is to take folic acid before and during pregnancy, but why must all of the prenatal vitamins be pink? Why do they have little pictures of ladies with round bellies on the boxes? Uh, hello? Will someone please tell the men who design these boxes (they've gotta be men, because women know that being pregnant doesn't immediately make you blow up like a balloon) that they don't need to make their boxes pink?
While we're at it, someone also needs to tell the drug companies that these special vitamins don't need names like Gesticare or Expecta. Seriously, please just call them prenatal vitamins or something equally descriptive yet simple.
On a related note, I really liked going Back to Basics with some J&J baby shampoo on a recent vacation (thanks, Mum!). When I returned home, I thought I might as well get myself a bottle. So I cruised the shampoo aisle in my favorite red and white box-store-which-shall-remain-unnamed. The baby shampoo isn't kept with the adult shampoo. Not even close. It's in the middle of the store with the baby stuff. ? Why can't the shampoos all be together? Conspiracy! Everybody knows that baby shampoo, even with that patented tear free formula, is super cheap! The store designers want you spending $4 on a bottle of shampoo. But I digress.
Back to the vitamins. I really don't think it's necessary for these special formulas to come in frilly packaging (some don't, but even the red-and-white-box-store-brand is pink!) and I certainly don't want pictures of mamas with swollen bellies on my vitamin boxes. Can't they make some macho prenatal vitamin packaging? Or better yet, something in the shape of a Flintstone? Those would be much more fun.
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