Vitamin Drops

[loopyloo82]

Hi I am hoping someone will be able to advise me on this.

My dd is 9 months, breastfed and we are doing BLW. She still takes loads of milk throughout the day and the night and is only just starting to eat any solids rather than playing, and still very small quantities. She also has a vegetarian diet. Do you think she also regularly needs vitamin/iron supplements?

I was wondering because she has been poorly for 3 days and eaten nothing at all in the way of solids while breastfeeding constantly. Is this OK? Will it help her or does she need vitamins and energy from solid food to boost her health?

Thanks in advance for replies

Breastmilk will give her what she needs as it is still the primary source of nutrients for the first year.

Going back to exclusive breastfeeding is very common when a baby is ill. Don't worry. Some children live on nothing but toast for months on end. Exclusive breastfeeding for a week or so at 9 months is fine.

If you are worried about vitamins then giving a fortified breakfast cereal like Wheatabix or Readybreak will give extra iron and vitamins. There is little point in the drops the health visitors recommend, your lo can get vitamin D from the sun and vitamin A and C from a half decent diet.

I had a health visitor going on at me about vitamin drops. With hindsight I should have asked her whether the drops were for me or the baby. Or prehaps the drops are a suppository to give to the irratating health visitor to put where the sun doesn't shine. (The health visitor told me I got to give up breastfeeding or else my child will get ricketts.)

Thank you for replies - I suspected it was OK but just wanted to put my mind at ease.
Thanks

I never have with either of mine, both healthy as all hell. Artificial, methinks. Good luck