No vitamins between 6-12 months?

[Tamothy]

We were living abroad and moved back when baby was 6 months. He has had vitamin d drops since birth. He eats a varied diet and loves eating plus he still breastfeeds 2-3 times a day. He's just turned 1 and a friend with a 6 month old asked me what brand vitamins I give him and when I said just vitamin d she said that I should've been giving him others since 6 months. Ive seen one health visitor since moving back at around 6 months and she didn't mention anything about vitamins. Now I'm worried that he's missed out. I went swimming the other day and noticed he was quite small in comparison to another one year old (most of my friends have different aged babies si it's hard to compare) and now I'm worried that the lack of vitamins have affected him. He's a very happy, healthy looking baby and I wouldn't have been too worried if my friend hadn't said anything but now I'm feeling like a terrible mother! Will it have affected him badly?? What vitamins should I get be him/any particular brand?

I never gave either of mine vitamins, they hated the drops and I couldn't be fucked with the battle every day. They are good balanced meals and are perfectly fine. They're not very big, but neither are their parents.

It's vitamins A, C and D that's recommended from 6months to age 5 if they are taking less than 500mls of formula or if they are breastfed.

Vitamin D is probably the most important and you're already giving that

Bf Ds(18) had no vitamins at all until he was 4ish and started getting fussy with what he ate. I didnt even know if was a thing to give them drops as noone ever mentioned it!

He is a big strapping 6ft 2in man now, so dont think it caused any problems!

Ok you are making me feel better, thank you!

Four kids between me and husband and no vitamins. A varied diet is what they need.

DD always used to refuse / spit out the vitamin drops so I just stopped trying and made sure to give her a variety of fruit and vegetables.

Now she’s a bit older I give her the gummy vitamins but it’s only recently I’ve felt comfortable with her chewing those properly (and I watch her eat them just in case)

Just echoing what others have said above. Yes the recommendation is to take the multivitamin drops between 6 months and 5 years but the multivitamin is just a combination of vitamin A, C and D. Vitamin D is the main one people are concerned with because it's easy to be deficient because it's very hard to consume the recommended amount from diet alone (think my health visitor said it's the equivalent of 15 eggs or something) but you're giving vitamin D drops anyway and you say he has a varied diet so he'll be getting other vitamins from his food too, so I'm sure it's not affected him in the slightest. I give the NHS healthy start drops, it comes in a small bottle where you just tap 5 drops out, my toddler will happily take straight from the spoon but you can just mix into drink or food if not.