I hope my story helps someone. I became anemic when I was pregnant, and then my mother told me all the women in our family are anemic once a month (when they menstrate) after their first pregnancy. THANKS MOM! Anyways, I'm not too good remembering to take pills, but I found the perfect iron pill. It's called (get this) Perfect Iron, and I get it at Wal-Mart. It doesn't have the usual tarry stool side effect that most anemic women have been told they have to live with. Like I said, I just hope this posting helps someone.