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vitamins to bfed baby

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mush4brains · 15/04/2007 19:21

Just got back from my MIL & she commented on how pale my DS is, 6.5 months. To cut a very long story short she has issues with my bfng him & suggested he has vitamins as my milk is obviously not got enough vits in & thats making him pale. Just started to wean him & he is loving food & eating loads but also still having lots of my milk.
I just thought he was fair skinned like me.
Does he really need vitamins?

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hunkermunker · 15/04/2007 19:25

No.

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mush4brains · 15/04/2007 19:29

Thanks, didnt thnk mother nature would have got it wrong.

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kinki · 15/04/2007 19:35

Seven years ago with ds1 I was advised to supplement bf with vitamin drops after 6 months. In fact I even bought the drops from the hv at the gp surgery. By the time I had ds2, 5 years later, the advice had changed and I was informed that it was no longer recommended, and not necessary at all, especially if the diet you're introducing is varied. Apparently that advise remains the same now.

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lemonaid · 15/04/2007 19:38

The main vitamin that parents in general might want to consider is Vitamin D, but largely if they are dark-skinned and/or don't get any exposure to the sun (that being the case in which we've been messing with Mother Nature so she may need a boost). As your DS is pale it seems unlikely that there's any chance that that would be a problem for him. The other possibility would be iron if he were being really picky about food, but if he's eating loads and a balanced diet then that's unlikely to be a problem either.

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