Maternity Exemption Certificate

[Guest guest]

I was like some of you and did not realise I actually needed this bit

of paper. I certainly did not when I got my iron tablet prescriptions

throughout my first pregnancy. Also when my nanny took my then 5

month old DD1 to the chemist to collect a prescription for herself

they automatically gave it to her for nothing, thinking she was DD1's

mother.

So it came as something of a shock to me when upon presenting a

prescription for iron tablets at 8 months pregnant (and looking like a

whale!) they refused to give them to me as I did not have a

Certificate! I could not believe it, I was huge and the tablets I

wanted were called " Pregaday " (ie, for pregnant women!!). I was a tad

annoyed as I had waddled all the way down to the chemist specifically

and told the boy behind the counter (who looked all of 12 years old!)

that I could assure him I did not have a cushion up my jumper and

could prove it if he did not believe me!! He was so freaked by that

he gave me the tablets! ;0)

Francesca