Has anyone's pediatrician told them they must give their child vitamins if they are breastfed? I know there is new concern about ricketts and Vitamin D deficiencies, especially since so many people shun the sun now, but I'd rather get my child some natural sunlight over giving vitamins. What about iron supplements for an otherwise healthy babe? I just can't figure out why it's becoming normal advice now.

I would think so long as you aren't deficient yourself it wouldn't be a problem. After all what you eat baby eats. I think perhaps they are assuming everyone eats poorly and thus isn't getting adequate nutrition and vitamins.

I have been 'strongly suggested' by the baby's paediatrician that I should be giving a vitamin with iron, vitamin D and fluoride because I only nurse. Why?! Breast milk is the best! And we get sunshine and are not dark skinned.

The iron will constipate. The fluoride is an industrial waste that can cause tooth problems in too great an amount and is linked to cancers. And the vitamin D just seems unnecessary. So why should I be giving this?

Oh no I should have checked first-I just started an almost identical topic. Hopefully a mod will see and merge the two threads-my apologies!

It has been merged, don't worry sometimes it happens to the best of us. ;)

I would not give my baby girl supplements and I don't breastfeed, you can be perfectly normal going out in the sun (safely) without having to deal with those supplements. Doctors tried to put me on them as a teen and I refused.