Cheaper alternative to wellbaby vitamins?

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Does anyone have any recommendations for vitamins to give babies? I have twin girls who are 8 month old and seem to be going through a lot of wellbaby vitamins and it isn't cheap even when on 3 for 2

Would like to know if there is a cheaper alternative also. Anyone??

I’ve just picked up a bottle of Abidec multivitamin syrup in Poundland whilst in there looking for something else.
Boots own brand multivitamin syrup is good too.

Vitamins are a complete waste of money (i’m a food scientist).

Vitamins B & C are water soluble - which means when you consume over what you need you wee the rest out. Vitamins A, D, E & K are fat soluble - have too many and these vitamins are stored in the body and can become toxic.

Everybody should be eating a balanced diet which you get all the vitamins and minerals you need. Absolutely no reason to be pumping a child with factory made pills.

None
Two healthy kids
They don't need them

I think you should be able to get them from your local children's centre, where you would go to see the health visitor. They have them for people on certain benefits but they also sell them to others cheap. My local one sells a bottle of drops for £1.40. It's the healthy start ones.

NorthernSpirit even with fussy toddlers? I do my best but worry mine doesn’t get enough veg!

@NorthernSpirit
Isn't it recommended that everyone takes vitamin D now?

Why are you giving them vitamins -apart from Vitamin D? There's no need. Unless they have specific health issues, of course.

Vitamin D is the ‘sunshine’ vitamin - the human body makes it itself. I definitely wouldn’t be giving a child that. They should be put enough in daylight to make Vit D themselves.

As for a fussy eater - you are sticking a plaster on an open wound. You need to persist (I know it’s difficult, when I met my SD - 9 at the time the only ‘vegetable’ as mum called it that she ate was baked beans)! They aren’t even a vegetable!!!! You have to be tough and persist. It’s really not a good think to be pumping kids full of tablets they don’t need. And it sends the message - it’s ok to eat crap because i’ll pop a pill to get everything I need.

Balanced diet all the way.

@NorthernSpirit I have been advised by hv to give my boy vitamins until he is 1 as he has dropped below the reccomended formula intake. He eats very well, however I am slightly concerned about iron levels as we don't eat meat and he is not the best at eating leafy greens just yet, although it's a matter of time before he masters it. I've got some lentils and have a few recipes to try out. But what I'm asking, am I wasting my money and shouldn't bother?
And to the OP, sorry to hijack

Own brand vitamins are much cheaper.

I have to disagree on the vit D front. We don’t get enough sunshine in the UK to guarantee adequate vit D production, especially if you have a darker skin tone and even more especially if you are covering skin and using suncream to protect from burning. The safe upper limit is very high even in children so it makes more sense to supplement than to not (and is in line with current medical advice)

Yes, and weaning may not be getting all those vitamins from food, neither will fussy older children. Some illnesses require you to take the fat soluble vitamins because you can't digest fat. DS1 has them on prescription.

*weaning babies

Don’t take the word of one good scientist up thread. The NHS - backed my experts at Public Health England - recommends that children up to the age of 5 are given vitamins A, C and D. There is a particular lack of vit D in this country. These vitamins are contained in many multivitamin drops for kids.
It’s entirely up to you but giving multivitamins won’t harm your babies and will plug gaps in nutrition.
My kids eat really well but I still give them a bit regularly.
Afraid I don’t know of any cheaper ones.. apart from Boots own