Are you using vitamin D drops?

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I'm from the UK where guidelines are slightly different from the USA. Now my baby is on 3 solid meals he takes around 18oz of formula as recommended. However now I've to use cows milk in his breakfast cereal/porridge meaning some days he may only now take 15oz of formula. In the U.K milk isn't fortified with vitamin D and the guidelines recommend breastfed babies and babies consuming less than 18oz of formula need vitamin D supplement. Should I give this to my baby? Would it harm him if he got to much vitamin D?

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Baby won't get too much vit d from supplements. I've been advised due to my children being mixed race to give vit d daily. That's when they are exclusively formula fed too. I've got to say I haven't for either as we are always out and about but it won't harm.

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Cc this is a brief explanation

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They just changed the recommendation in the US that if you are breastfeeding and taking vitamin D yourself, you don't need to do the drops

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Formula has vitamin D!

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I was in the beginning but then I realized that vitamin D production relies on sunlight anyway. So I haven't been giving it to him for months and I just make sure I bring him in direct sunlight a couple of times a week ( I live in south Florida).

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There is no such thing as vitamin D overdoes. It does not happen as far as I know. I am using it since my pediatrician recommended, because my LO does not get any sun because of the weather we have in my country. Best would be to ask to your doc. But in my country almost every baby gets vitamin D drops.

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I'm from Romania and our doctors recommend vitamin D (Vigantol) for breastfed babies also, 2 drops a day until they are 1 year old. It's a common recommendation across most European countries.

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There may be a level which "too much" is a problem but you're nowhere near it adding a daily supplement to what baby is getting already.

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My baby is mostly breastfed and gets pureed foods maybe once a day and at our 6 month appt our pediatrician gave us a prescription for multivitamin drops with fluoride.  I also mix some whole grain iron fortified cereal in my LO'S bottles.   The American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines day EBF babies after 6 months need fluoride and since birth need vitamin d and Iron supplements.

Are you using vitamin D drops?

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