vitamin supplements?

[teal]

I seen my health visitor today for my son's monthly weigh in and she mentioned that if I continue breastfeeding now that my son is 6 months old I'll need to give him vitamin drops. Does anyone have experience of this?

I tried having a look online but can only really find info about me taking a vitamin supplement. My hv isn't very pro-breastfeeding so sometimes I don't feel I can rely on her for advice (after she was pushing formula when my son was a few weeks old )

 

[Seity]

As far as I know the only vitamin that you don't get is vit D, but if you go outside you can get that naturally. Also, at 6 months you start introducing other food, so once he starts eating and not just playing with the food, he'll get extra vitamins from that.

 

[MelanieAnn]

This is an old chestnut. Yes, the current DOH advice is to use vitamin supplements. Not only do I not know any mums who do, I just can't imagine why or how it's needed. In evolutionary terms, baby never got supplements - why would they need it now? It's not recommended by any of the BF organisations to my knowledge. By all means get some sunlight every day for Vit D - but better to get it via the sun than a chemical, surely?

Mel

 

[MelanieAnn]

https://www.llli.org/FAQ/vitamin.html
https://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/vitamins/vitamin-d.html
https://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/life02breastfeeding.pdf