Ok, so I've read that full term babies don't need additional iron until 6 months and then can get it through food, but babies build their iron stores in the last trimester and my LO missed out on 1/3 of that. I'm not ready for her to start solids and she isn't either (can't sit up, still has tongue thrust, etc, and I don't want to introduce them until 6 months+ for various reasons) so I bought some of the vitamin drops but she really won't take them. Plus, I work full time and BF when home with her so I have a hard time figuring out how to give them to her in a bottle since I don't want to give bottles at home in order to maintain my supply. Is it ok to put the drops in a bottle and send it to daycare or should it be given right away? I'm worried that I'll just be ruining a bottle of milk that she won't eat and then she'll be hungry and short one bottle.
Any tips? I was mildly anemic during pg and took iron supplements so sometimes I worry that she's been low on iron all along and I haven't done enough....
Re: 36 weeker and iron supplements at 5/6 months?
ditto. We put the vitamins mixed with 15-30 mL of milk (so 1/2-1 oz) and gave it to him before his bottle, that way he was so hungry he didn't even care that it tasted off and didnt' realize it before he sucked down 1/2 oz.