04 June 2006

To the Makers of the Sample Prenatal Vitamins

You gave samples to my doctor to give to me in the hope - I assume - that I would buy your product. I thank you for this, since prenatal vitamins, even the Walmart brand, are expensive.

However, you have a problem with your packaging.

Yes, I would be referring to that handy-dandy, child-proof blister-pack junk you have sealed each and every pill into.

I'm busy. I have a job. I have an hour's commute to the job. I have a four-year-old. I have a house. I have piles upon piles of laundy. My kitchen is a wreck.

In other words, I do not have time to go find a pair of scissors or The Husband every time I remember to take one of your pills. And it seems to me that it rather defeats the purpose of the pills to make them so inaccessible. I mean, I'm doing really well when I remember to take them at all. Please don't make it so hard on me that the incentive of the pill's freeness is negated.

Thank you,
-Pregnant Writer Lady