To be panicking that I haven’t ever given 5-month-old vit D?

[FrogOfFroggHall]

I realised this today as I stumbled across the bottle. I absolutely knew I should do it but my toddler lost the bottle in the early days and out of sight out of mind. Just haven’t thought about it in months. I have just been so frazzled and now really beating myself up.

Obviously will start now. Will it make any difference? She’s nearly 6 months old now and EBF.

I had ebf babies in two different parts of England and in neither was this ever mentioned by health professionals or any family or friends. In fact I'm not sure if I've heard of it before reading this thread so I'd question it being recommended for decades.

Eta I was intrigued enough to look this up and it says it started in July 16 which explains why it was never on anyone's radar when my children were born

I genuinely thought it has been longer than that ,my apologies.

DD was born in 2009 and was given vit D drops by the hospital. Niece was born 2008 in a different part of the country and wasn’t. Some hospitals clearly ahead with this.

You still don’t always get enough, it needs skin and a fair bit of skin exposed to the sun. I can’t do that without burning so I have to take vitamin D
people think they’re fine but realistically how many people go to work, sit in an office or work in a building all day then come home and have had virtually no exposure?
most people are deficient

DS1 is 21 and we were given vit drops by the HV when he was 6 months old. They were free but hardly ever in stock so couldn't always get them.