Baby Weened Can I Stop Vitamin D Drops
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When practise you stop Vitamin D?
Considering my son is breastfed, we give him vitamin D because breastmilk lacks in that vitamin. My question is, when do nosotros terminate? He is not seven months old and eating solid nutrient and we give him formula once a twenty-four hour period. I call up it'due south a skillful fourth dimension to cease but I can't find info anywhere on it. Suggestions?
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- Bullseye
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Nosotros stopped when he stopped breastfeeding, after his commencement birthday.
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- ayeung
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It depends if your babe can get enough vitamins from food other than chest milk. I think yous don't stop giving vitamin D equally long as your baby is taking chest milk. As they grow older, you lot may also requite "poly vi sol" and "tri vi sol" instead of simply "D". Simply check with your doctor if yous want to be sure.
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I did not requite my son whatever actress vitamin or iron although he is breast fed. For vitamin D, merely put him under the lord's day. It does non make sense to give baby extra chemicals. Nature takes care of it. If breast milk does non have it, then the baby does not demand information technology. Just because formula added atomic number 26, chest milk baby does not need extra "chemic" fe.
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Our 11 calendar month erstwhile is withal breast feading so we're still giving her the Vitamin D. Annihilation that helps in the evolution of a child, like Vit D is adept.
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- llbgal
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Depending on your risk category and the exposure to sunlight that your breastfed baby has -- supplements are not necessarily necessary!
http://www.drjacknewman.com/index.php?o ... &itemid=65
http://www.lalecheleague.org/Release/rickets.html
http://parenting.ivillage.com/newborn/n ... vt,00.html
(FYI Dr. Newman is considered i of the leading breastfeeding specialists!)
Nigh of the information indicates that, even in Canada's Northern climate, unless you are in an at-risk grouping-- supplementation is not needed.
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In that location are a lot of studies for and confronting supplements. And a lot of these studies are done by leading medical schools. Notwithstanding, at the terminate of the day, nosotros have to identify some reliance on what your pediatrician or GP advises. And if my doctor says to supplement, then information technology
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[quote="mannyb" post_id="5036611" time="1178158147" user_id="27227"]There are a lot of studies for and confronting supplements. And a lot of these studies are done by leading medical schools. Even so, at the stop of the 24-hour interval, nosotros take to identify some reliance on what your pediatrician or GP advises. And if my doctor says to supplement, and so it
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Here's a study from the American Academy of Pediatrics: http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cg ... ;111/4/908 and i from the Canadian Paediatric Society: http://world wide web.cps.ca/english/search/Search ... ite&o2=%3E containing info on Vitamin D.
In your case, your doctors told y'all it isn't necessary merely in my case, they say it doesn't hurt to supplement when breast feeding.
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And just look at the first study you posted:
66% percent were of Heart Eastern or Blackness descent. One example was of Inuit origin, living in the far North of Ontario, while ethnicity for the remaining cases was unknown or non provided. 60 percent were classified every bit dark and 40% equally intermediate in skin colour. All of the cases had been breast-fed, while none had received vitamin D supplementation. Bowing deformity of the limbs was universal at diagnosis, and 2 patients presented with a fracture. Growth failure, irritability, and delayed gross motor milestones were also reported. Only 11% of mothers had received vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy. Following delivery, none of the mothers had received vitamin D supplementation, and 75% of mothers did not potable milk. Virtually half (47%) of the mothers were veiled during and afterwards pregnancy.
There is clearly an ethnicity aspect to this... As well, coming into spring/summer where it is easier to take your kid outside it is less likely that the kid volition exist getting an inadequate supply (call back it is just approx. 30 min/per Calendar week needed to get the necessary vit. D). 
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llbgal wrote: ↑(FYI Dr. Newman is considered ane of the leading breastfeeding specialists!)
Also bad I don't take a risk to talk to him. We solve our lactation trouble by going to http://world wide web.lalecheleague.org.
By the fourth dimension we want to see him, information technology was airtight down. Too bad. The regime should promote chest feeding. Breast feeding saves the authorities more than money in the long run.
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getmail99 wrote: ↑ ... The government should promote breast feeding. Breast feeding saves the regime more than money in the long run....
That's true as breastfed babies have less health problems and for the mother, lower chance of getting breast cancer.
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getmail99 wrote: ↑I did not give my son whatever extra vitamin or iron although he is chest fed. For vitamin D, just put him nether the lord's day. Information technology does not make sense to give baby actress chemicals. Nature takes care of it. If chest milk does not take it, then the baby does not need it. Just considering formula added iron, chest milk infant does not demand extra "chemical" iron.
Just want to point out that we should not put the baby under direct sunlight every bit the UV or sun burn tin be more harmful than getting the vitamin D for them.
I don't think vitamin is that bad of a "chemical".
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getmail99 wrote: ↑I did non requite my son any extra vitamin or atomic number 26 although he is chest fed. For vitamin D, just put him under the sun.
That'southward fine if yous live in a warmer climate. Simply getting regular sunlight in a Canadian winter isn't that easy.
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We actually stopped giving our daughter Vitamin D later she started eating solids. That was but before she was six months.
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Vitamins A, D, Due east and Grand are absorbed and held in liver tissue. I'd be making sure not to exceed the daily values (your formula may take it, regular milk has it, and the torso produces and extra it needs in sunny months)
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http://www.drjacknewman.com/index.php?o ... &itemid=65
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Vitamin D
It seems that breastmilk does not contain much vitamin D, but it has a little. We must presume this is as nature intended, not a mistake of evolution. In fact, breastmilk is one of the few natural foods that does incorporate some vitamin D. The infant stores up vitamin D during the pregnancy and he will remain healthy without vitamin D supplementation, unless the mother herself is vitamin D deficient during the pregnancy. Vitamin D deficiency in significant women in Canada and the USA is rare. Exterior exposure also gives your baby vitamin D fifty-fifty in winter, even when the sky is cloudy. An hour or so of outside exposure during a week gives your babe more than enough vitamin D fifty-fifty if only his face up is exposed, even in wintertime.
Under unusual circumstances, information technology may be prudent to requite the baby vitamin D. For example, in situations where exposure of the baby to ultraviolet rays of the dominicus is not possible (Northern Canada in winter, or if the baby is never taken outside), giving the baby vitamin D drops would exist advised. Vitamin D drops are expensive.
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If your house has a window that does not block UV, yous tin expose the infant to sunlight through the window, fifty-fifty in winter.
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ayeung wrote: ↑Just want to point out that nosotros should not put the baby under direct sunlight every bit the UV or sun fire tin can be more harmful than getting the vitamin D for them.
I don't think vitamin is that bad of a "chemic".
Accept it easy. Of course no parents will put the baby under directly sunlight at noon. However, a few minutes in the morning time or evening of direct sunlight would not harm your babe, and a few minutes are enough.
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getmail99 wrote: ↑Nature takes care of information technology. If chest milk does not have it, then the baby does not need it.
Nature is far from perfect, in fact, she is a existent nasty scrapch sometimes. If we all relied on just 'nature' instead of modern medicine, you'd see college baby death rates and lower lifespans, like back in the quondam days.
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Bullseye wrote: ↑Nature is far from perfect, in fact, she is a real nasty fleckch sometimes. If nosotros all relied on merely 'nature' instead of modern medicine, y'all'd meet higher infant death rates and lower lifespans, like back in the old days.
Of course I am non against modern medicine, ... when did I say I am against modern medicine...In the case of breast milk, the 'nature' volition take care of it. Please read Dr. Newman'south website. Is Dr. Newman not a modernistic medicine doctor?
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