Vitamine D supplement - from birth?

[Thaleia]

Hi,
Just wondering if you give your DC Vitamine D as a supplement if if you do, who had recommended it to you?

I heard for the first time this week that this has been recommended in other countries from birth not only from 6 months onwards.

Thanks, Thali

I give DS Abidec - that has vitamins A, C, D, and a couple of the B ones.

I was hoping to exclusively breastfeed DS (which didn't work out), so when he was discharged from neo-natal, he was given a bottle of Abidec on prescription from the paediatricians. They told us that breastmilk doesn't always contain all the vitamins babies need, but I don't remember them going into more detail than that about it.

We get vitamin D mainly from exposure to the sun not through diet. And as we live in a northern country and put on suncream in the summer then a lot of people just don't get enough sun. About 80% of the population are though to be deficient and cases of rickert's are on the increase. Therefore the government has recommended that everyone should take a Vitamin D supplement.

Personally I wouldn't give one to a baby under six months unless given by a doc for a dioptric reason. You can supplement your self to make sure your not deficient.