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post #1 of 12
11/4/06 at 12:05am
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At our 2 month visit, my pediatrician recommended we begin vitamins for Cleo. Now, my ped is the most AP in the area-- lactation consultant, OK with refusing vax, recommends cosleeping, has Hathor comics posted on her walls, etc., so I tend to trust what she recommends, but I don't see why Cleo needs vitamins if i'm EBF. I mean, my milk has everything she needs, right?

Just wanted to hear some opinions. Are y'all giving vitamins?
post #2 of 12
11/4/06 at 12:07am
No I woudl not give vitamins, especially if i lived in Atlanta.

Iw ould only give vit. d if I had a darker skinned baby who did not get much sunlight (10-15 minutes a day, which is easy to get even in Canada where I live.)
post #3 of 12
11/4/06 at 12:51am
We have a homeopathic dr and I asked about vitamins becuase Dominic came home from the nicu on vitamins and he said that they didnt need them. I'm not ebf either, 75-80%bf.
post #4 of 12
11/4/06 at 1:18am
We don't give vitamins to babies, and would only give Vitamin D if baby was dark skinned and lived in a northern climate.
post #5 of 12
11/4/06 at 3:56am
None here, either.
post #6 of 12
11/4/06 at 11:17am
My doc also wanted us to take vit D since i 100% bf. But we don't. She gets plenty of sunlight and is pasty white anyways.
post #7 of 12
11/4/06 at 11:24am
No vitamins here. Our pediatrician agrees that it's totally unneccesary!
post #8 of 12
11/4/06 at 12:06pm
Yes, your milk has EVERYTHING that she needs. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
post #9 of 12
11/4/06 at 5:59pm
great question!
post #10 of 12
11/6/06 at 1:21am
my Dr never even mentioned it, but we arent EBF more like 85% bf.

I have heard the Vit D thing though...
post #11 of 12
11/6/06 at 1:37pm
No, we aren't giving vitamins either. I remember when that study came out about Vit D. Wtih ds1, they didn't recommend vitamins until he was 7mos old and wasn't consistently eating solids. We chose not to give them though.
post #12 of 12
11/6/06 at 4:55pm
What kind of vitamins? I don't think she needs them, but is there something special in your circumstance that would make you think they might be necessary? We've never given either baby vitamins, other than stuff like acidophilus during tummy bugs, EFA's (but not till she was older and primarily on solids), and recently I started giving DD1 extra C because I'm trying to keep us healthy this winter. But never when she was EBF.
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