Vitamin D drops when BFing?

CactusGirl · March 2014

At the pediatrician appt the doctor prescribed vitamin D drops for LO, as she recommends all breastfeed babies to take them. I nursed DD for 13 months and was never told this. Anyone else with a BF baby been recommended to give these?

cdnmomma · March 2014

Yup. The hospital told us we need to give her 400 iu a day.

Aturl · March 2014

Yep I bfed my dd who is almost two and never heard anything about it but was told to get them for this LO in the hospital as well.

jasi704 · March 2014

Yup, my doc recommended I give vitamin d drops at DS 2-week appt.

stephcrosby09 · March 2014

Went to the pedi at 4 days old and she gave them to us too. 1ML a day is the dose she gave us.

LaurenAsh23 · March 2014

Yup, we give it to her before her last nighttime feeding

jwls84 · March 2014

Yep I was told to with both kiddos unt they start solids or we switch to formula. It's because we don't have it in our breast milk and it is hard to get vitamin D in general. But it is added to formula and in foods and cows milk

VineyardMel · March 2014

I give them and did for DD until she started solids.

fish8412 · March 2014

Nope

Fy1124 · March 2014

They prescribed them for my baby when we got released and when I gave them to him he threw up a lot and I stopped giving them to him, I felt bad

jh&kh · March 2014

bunnyfungo said:

I don't give vitamin D drops because I take my kids outside. You get vitamin D from the sun, so why pay for drops?

This. Especially because when DD1 was an infant we lived in sunny Arizona!

aedillinger · March 2014

My ped said to start them because we live in Seattle, so we won't see any sun until July 5th! She said it's the only vitamin missing from breastmilk.

KariB509 · March 2014

My pedi didn't recommend using them this time or when I was BFing DS. Wonder why some doctors recommend it while others don't even mention it.

RoxyV111582 · March 2014

My doc also recommended it today for my 2 week old LO I wish it wasn't so cold so we cold just go outside for 30 min each day. Hopefully spring will be here soon!

SurpriseAt39 · March 2014

Definitely recommended in Canada.
I've been told to give vitamin D to all 3 kids. (12 yo, 1 to, NB)

I'd imagine part of the reason some docs don't tell some BFing moms to give it, is because of where they live/climate.

If you live in a normally 'sunny all the time' sorta spot, where its warm, and you'd generally expect to be outside frequently,...then I could see not being told to give them.

But up north here, where we still have snow on the ground and negative temperatures, well, I for one will not be sun tanning anytime soon, and therefore will be giving the drops.

benevolentforce · March 2014

Still have an inside baby, but this is an interesting topic - especially given that I believe it's nearly impossible for adults to OD on vitamin D, and it has so many known benefits (from mental health to proper cell function),

Still, if it's not in our breast milk naturally, it begs the question of why - esp from an evolutionary perspective. One would think if it were crucial for babies, we'd have evolved to provide it.

Off to research, but would love to hear thoughts from anyone strongly for/against supplementing.

dancer7889 · March 2014

I was very surprise when my ped recommended vitamin supplements. He actually recommended tri-vi-sol which has vit a, c, and d. I researched this a bit bc I'm in school for child development and never heard about this before.

I was confused- I thought breast milk was supposed to provide all needed nutrients. Breast milk only provides a small amount of vit d and the rest can be obtained through sunlight. Guess what? It's cold and not sunny here yet! I opted to go with baby d drops- they contain 400 iui as recommended by aap in one colorless drop. Super easy to give! The tri-vi-sol is such a huge dose b/c it's full of sugar, colorings, and preservatives. All things I don't want for my baby's belly.

Once it's nice out, I won't worry as much about the drops bc we'll be outside a lot.

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CactusGirl · March 2014

DisneyAddict1 said:

CactusGirl said:

At the pediatrician appt the doctor prescribed vitamin D drops for LO, as she recommends all breastfeed babies to take them. I nursed DD for 13 months and was never told this. Anyone else with a BF baby been recommended to give these?

Fellow AZ gal here

I would personally have never been recommended giving DS the vitamin D drops because all we get here is sun! I don't know how you spend the summer but we spend a lot of time out in the sun playing in water to keep cool. Plenty of opportunity for vitamin D.

Yeah I thought it was weird, especially since we've already been spending time in the sun since she was born! (I mean, we have to since I have a rambunctious toddler that needs to run around).

I've already got the drops though. Is it possible to get too much vit D? (Drops and being in the sun)

CactusGirl · March 2014

OK, thanks! And @DisneyAddict1 , I'm sure I've already asked you this several times, but my memory sucks. Where in AZ do you live again?

jh&kh · March 2014

CactusGirl said:

OK, thanks! And @DisneyAddict1 , I'm sure I've already asked you this several times, but my memory sucks. Where in AZ do you live again?

DisneyAddict1 said:

I'm in Phoenix

Can I just mention that every time I see you two post, it makes me homesick! I'm a Gilbert native and VERY much looking forward to moving back this summer

CactusGirl · March 2014

jh&kh said:

CactusGirl said:

OK, thanks! And @DisneyAddict1 , I'm sure I've already asked you this several times, but my memory sucks. Where in AZ do you live again?

DisneyAddict1 said:

I'm in Phoenix

Can I just mention that every time I see you two post, it makes me homesick! I'm a Gilbert native and VERY much looking forward to moving back this summer

I lived in Gilbert for 5 years, I love gilbert! I'm 2 hours from phoenix, maybe when our babies are a couple months old we can all have a get-together.

ufsandra85 · March 2014

yes. i always thought every bf baby was told they should have them

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