are you giving vitamins to your toddler?

Erinmmo

At our 2 yr check up the doctor didnt even mention them and now that my daughter is starting school/daycare 2x a week, my husband and I thought it would be proactive to start her on them and help with whatever nutrients she isnt getting from food since she is such a picky eater now. 

 

 

MrsWindyCity

We don't but DS is a pretty balanced eater. If that changes, we'll likely start giving him one but for now  I think he's fine (and the pedi said the same at his 2y appt).

SallyCampos22

We give our son gummy vitamins. More so because he asks for them and likes them.

saturdaynightdoubletree

Both my kids are really good eaters and eat a variety of fruits and veggies, but we still give them a flinestones multivitamin every morning. If for no other reason, it makes me think I'm doing my best to keep them as healthy as possible to fight off germs at school :-)

TMDMJAOCT07

She gets 1/2 a flintstone vitamin a day - at 2 our pedi checks for anemia and she was slightly anemic so we started her on them then. But, I do like the idea of a vitamin since she is a picky eater.

Angela814

Sometimes when we remember. I have gummy vitamins for both girls. I really just started a few months ago. DD1 never got vitamins as a toddler, but she was much less picky then than she is now.

bridetobe920

Yes, we give DD a gummy every day per our pedi's rec.

sara785

saturdaynightdoubletree:

Both my kids are really good eaters and eat a variety of fruits and veggies, but we still give them a flinestones multivitamin every morning. If for no other reason, it makes me think I'm doing my best to keep them as healthy as possible to fight off germs at school :

Ditto.

sschwege

The sheet our pedi gave us at DD's two year appointment said we could start to give vitamins if we wanted to.  We got lucky and DD is a wonderful eater so we don't do a multi-vitamin.  The only thing we started giving her just recently was Vitamin D drops, just one drop on a piece of food.  I did that because with summer being over I know she is probably going to need extra Vitamin D.

jmjb2008

We do, just because she goes to daycare and I teach so we have a lot of exposure to germs.  She is a very healthy eater, but I just feel better about her taking a vitamin. We take ours together at night, and she is actually the one that reminds me every single night!  She takes the Flintstones kind.

stever

We do AND DS is a balanced eater... for the most part.

kimberleigh30

SallyCampos22:

We give our son gummy vitamins. More so because he asks for them and likes them.

Same here

Stephanie2167

She gets a gummy vitamin.

Worcbride

yes--the dr gives us a vitamin/fluoride combo pill;  we have well water/had it tested and there is no fluoride.

puddin pop

saturdaynightdoubletree:

Both my kids are really good eaters and eat a variety of fruits and veggies, but we still give them a flinestones multivitamin every morning. If for no other reason, it makes me think I'm doing my best to keep them as healthy as possible to fight off germs at school :-)

grlmom16

Yep! A few days a week I will give her the Flinstone vitamin. She loves it & loves to hear it 'crunch' between her teeth!

osirismama

We do,but it is because i am pregnant again and DS always wants to take medicine  when i take my prenatle. So i got him the flinstones chewables first vitamins. For ages 2-3. No iron in them, so no worry. But he likes them. And feels big.

allioop2001

Our pedi prescribed one with flouride last year at the 2yr check-up and another one this year with more flouride. We have well water, hence the need for flouride.

SRose27

DD has been on a multivitamin with fluoride from the Dr. since she was a few months old, we still use it every day.