Can I take both my multi vitamins at the same time?

I am one month out tomorrow and my surgeons plan calls for me to take two children multi vitamins with iron a day and a calcium chew. After reading alot of kellys vitamin post im thinking I need to find some different vitamins but Im going to wait for my appointment at the end of January and talk to my surgeon. I was just wondering if its ok if I take both of them at the same time. I have been taking them separately but I always end up forgetting to take the other one.

As far as I know, you can not take them at the same time. It would be too much and your body wouldn't abose* all of it. I take one when I wake up and one when I go to bed. That might help ya

And my surgeon told me to take both of them together!  But I have to take my B-12 at a separate time.  Funny how surgeons differ in opinions!

I asked this same question when I was pretty early out..the answer I got was that it is not recommended because your body can only absorb certain amounts of vitamins at the same time. The childrens vitamins most likely do not have everything you need..but it sounds like you already know that. :) 

Good luck on your journey!

It's usually recommended to take them separately for best absorption.

Are you only taking one calcium chew?  And two children's multis?  That's not enough vitamins (says the ASMBS, not just says Kelly). 

Also, do the children's vitamins have 100% of the RDA of things in them, and contain minerals including selenium?  I ask because many, including Flintstones, do not.

i took both mine at the same time for the first 14 months... i have then switched to a different vitamine, however, i had good success and have no reason to suspect otherwise

I take a morning and an evening one. I had to put a reminder in my phone for 8 pm, because I kept forgetting my evening one! I'd wake up in the middle of the night thinking oh geeze, I forgot my vitamin again! 

I was told I could take both my multivitimins at the same time with my B12 but to take my calcium seperately (several times throughout the day).

I have not seen any medical articles our studies that indicate that there is a limited amount of a multivitamin that we can absorb at any one time. (The limitation on absorption of calcium is fairly well documented, however, and has to do with the someone unique way that our body has to process it.  In my research on whether or not THAT was true, however, I did not encounter any information on limits of absorption on ay other vitamins.)

If there is no limit to the amount of fat, calories, protein, and carbs that we can absorb at one time, however, I cannot imagine that there would be a limit to how much of a multivitamin we could absorb at one time.  Also, people frequently take large doses of B12 and Vit D at one time, so it just doesn't seem to make sense to me to then claim that you have to treat a multivitamin differently.

Also, on the anecdotal level, I have been taking my multi's together almost every day for over 5 years, and my labs -- other than my K, which is a unique situation to me and requires a very high dose of daily Vit K -- are great.  So much so that my surgeon joked about posting them to show other patients what their labs SHOULD look like.

Lora

I was told to take them at different times. I think it can't hurt to space them out, and I feel like it helps me remember to take my iron and calcium throughout the day. Every two hours or so for much of the day I'm taking some vitamin or the other. Also, I take a big bunch of pills each morning, including my first dose of calcium, and I don't want to add to the bunch if I can help it!  I don't feel "open" first thing in the morning- I don't eat for a long while after waking.