Vitamin D supplement for babies

[Puddingsmummy]

I'm really worried, my baby is almost 4 months old and I've only EBF him. I've just read that all BF babies should have a vitamin D supplement daily from birth!! No one has ever mentioned this to me!!
God what harm have I done him by not giving it him? I've never heard of doing this before..

you won't have done harm. Just start now

And you should be taking it too

He'll be fine. Just start now. Biocare do a good one.

No panic. Two million years of human babies got by on EBF and no vitamin D supplements. Although to be fair they probably spent more time outside.

I asked about this in the postnatal ward as I’d read about it and two of the midwives had never heard of it! Don’t worry!

I spent a shocking amount of time trying to find a good supplement and got this one, which I like because you stick a drop on your finger and stick it in their mouth for them to suck off. You can also put a drop on your nipple but I was worried I wouldn’t know if she got it. It’s not cheap but it looked the easiest to use as loads of them need a dropper or syringe thing.

Baby Ddrops® 10 µg 60 drops www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N6J9OH9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_FM4WCb2ZWFH3V?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Ask your health visitor, they give you a free bottle of drops here. But i wouldn't worry about not having started yet.

Those are Pharma companies speaking. If you and your baby spend some time outside and you exclusively breastfeed him, neither of you will need vitamin D supplements.

It's been NHS standard advice for some years now - came in in 2015:

www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/the-new-guidelines-on-vitamin-d-what-you-need-to-know/

That article contains links to the evidence base on which the new guidelines are based.

I never took one DDs born 2015 and 2016 didn't it we spend most of our days outside. Don't panic do you know you're vit d deficient?