BLW - do we need vitamins?

[CommanderShepard]

My 6mo is merrily getting to grips with weaning - not a huge amount being swallowed but she's having a whale of a time learning about food so I'm happy.

However, every time someone asks me how I'm weaning her and I say 'oh, BLW - not a lot going in yet but she's getting the hang of it and in the meantime she's still doing beautifully on breastmilk' people look a bit scandalised and tell me that she will start losing her iron stores and needs vitamin D over and above what I already take so I must either give her vitamins (is it Abidec?) or offer follow-on milk (ahahaha no, I'm not falling for that marketing guff).

Thing is, I struggle to keep my own iron levels up where they should be and so I'm worried that actually on this occasion people are right. Does anyone have any advice? I'm normally quite cynical about vitamins and other supplements - folic acid (and, in my case, iron) excepted - but I'm worried about making sure the Commanderling is getting everything she needs.

And when I say 6mo, I mean 7mo tomorrow

I would have a chat with your HV, but the main source of vitamins etc will still be coming from your milk so I'm sure your LO is doing fine. Fwiw my friends LO didn't eat much at all until 8.5 months when he started crawling. It's hard not to worry, but they won't starve themselves :)

However you wean your baby, the current advice is to supplement with vitamin D, unless the baby is still getting the already supplemented Formula in sufficient quantities (500ml IIRC), and yes Abidec (which has A and C too although they're less important than D) And I would say that is even more relevant weaning this time of year when vitamin D can't be manufactured very easily - a couple of hours in full sun now will do it but not in a couple of months and only if there's lots of skin exposed anyway which is unlikely.

You are unlikely to need to worry about iron.