Natural vitamin A not just lutein is essential for the retina:
http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnut...aminasaga.html
http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnut...-oil-menu.html
You should be taking a tablespoon of high vitamin cod liver oil/day as a bf'ing mama. I would consider more if you have been deficient in vitamin A while pg and nursing. It takes a while for the body to re-stock its stores.
Blue Ice talked about in other thread is a good one. The quality matters, a grocery store brand may be processing with heat and therefore rancid. As well as high in PCBs or other contaminents.
Start small to get your digestion used to it though. Also organic and preferably grass fed liver.
My DS started cod liver oil at 8 mos, 1/2 tsp/day very well (and he has many food intolerances.) Maybe you would consider trying it on her about that time or when you start solids?
Canned salmon does not have the high DHA levels I believe, something about the canning process. Check on this to be sure.
Egg yolk can be started quite early, 6-8 months if necessary, the whites are the allergenic part. The best eggs are pasture fed from local farms if you can find them. When chickens eat bugs, they naturally have the best form of DHA in their eggs. The grocery store brand DHA eggs are from flax and flax is not as easy converted in the body as as cod liver oil. As you can see, eggs are also recommended everyday here: http://www.westonaprice.org/children...ormothers.html
Also know that other fats in your diet can compete with and block essential fatty acids like DHA. Vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats for example.
Fats are directly transferred into breastmilk... meaning if you eat trans fats, they appear in your milk and also the good stuff too. So stick to traditional good fats like butter, coconut oil, olive oil, avocado, nuts, etc. instead of canola or shortening.
http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnut...aminasaga.html
http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnut...-oil-menu.html
You should be taking a tablespoon of high vitamin cod liver oil/day as a bf'ing mama. I would consider more if you have been deficient in vitamin A while pg and nursing. It takes a while for the body to re-stock its stores.
Blue Ice talked about in other thread is a good one. The quality matters, a grocery store brand may be processing with heat and therefore rancid. As well as high in PCBs or other contaminents.
Start small to get your digestion used to it though. Also organic and preferably grass fed liver.
My DS started cod liver oil at 8 mos, 1/2 tsp/day very well (and he has many food intolerances.) Maybe you would consider trying it on her about that time or when you start solids?
Canned salmon does not have the high DHA levels I believe, something about the canning process. Check on this to be sure.
Egg yolk can be started quite early, 6-8 months if necessary, the whites are the allergenic part. The best eggs are pasture fed from local farms if you can find them. When chickens eat bugs, they naturally have the best form of DHA in their eggs. The grocery store brand DHA eggs are from flax and flax is not as easy converted in the body as as cod liver oil. As you can see, eggs are also recommended everyday here: http://www.westonaprice.org/children...ormothers.html
Also know that other fats in your diet can compete with and block essential fatty acids like DHA. Vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats for example.
Fats are directly transferred into breastmilk... meaning if you eat trans fats, they appear in your milk and also the good stuff too. So stick to traditional good fats like butter, coconut oil, olive oil, avocado, nuts, etc. instead of canola or shortening.
