Vitamin D drops

Re: Vitamin D drops

• bonitatinabina143 member

  January 2012

  Breastmilk is insufficient in vitamin d because most moms diets are insufficient. Make sure you are taking at least 400 IU of vit d if you aren't getting it from your diet. I do the drops in the fall/winter and probably will skip them in the spring/summer when my lo can get vit d from the sunlight.

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• tokenhoser member

  January 2012

  Vitamin D supplementation is a good idea because mothers are frequently deficient. If you would rather, you could supplement yourself ~6000 IU per day and your breastmilk would then provide enough vitamin D to your baby. Alternately, if you live in the south half of the States, you can make sure your baby gets 15 min of direct sun-on-skin sunlight per day.

  For me, it made the most sense to just supplement the baby. I do take 2400 IU for myself because I live up north and know very well I'm not getting summertime sun for at least half the year.
  

   

  
  
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• pitterpatter129 member

  January 2012

  People in general don't usually get enough vitamin D (agree with pp.)  We used these until he started solid foods and now we just buy foods fortified with vitamin D.  This kind is clear and tasteless.  I just put a drop on his pacifier or my nipple. 

   

  

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