Are kids' vitamins an acceptable substitute?

[Shades]

Okay great

Thanks Falguni - hope things are going better these days

[ss_storm]

I bought a bottle of Blackmore's tablets, not realising how enormous they were! I have trouble swallowing normal panadol sized tablets, and after trying, there was no way in the world I was going to be able to swallow them. I gave up and bought some Elevit tablets (not really any difference in price when buying from our discount chemist, it roughly works out the same anyway), which aren't gel caps and have an indent down the centre so they can be cut in half, I still have to cut them up into between 4-6 pieces so I don't make myself gag or throw up when I swallow them, but it's so much easier than trying to force down the blackmores ones!
I don't know what's in kids vitamin tablets, but I guess as long as you are getting the recommended dosage of folate and eating as healthily as possible. And really, what did women do before they manufactured pre-natal vitamins......

[tk1999]

I have found that I can only take my blackmores tablets with milk... and that I usually get the gag reflex either way... I take mine at night because when I took them in the morning I was always sick.

[MantaRay]

Actually, apart from folic acid and often iron, pre-natal vitamins are not usually necessary. The same is true while breastfeeding also.

[BellyBelly]

What about InLiven? 1/4 a tsp for children, and you can hide it in smoothies etc my kids have it in nudie juice tho. SOOOOOO much better for them than multis from the shop.... its made from food not lab made. If you look at the ingredients, you wont believe they will eat that But they do without knowing.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/misc/mivitality-inliven