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my kids love the yum-v chocolate vitamins. They don't like gummies (!!) It does have iron. Not sure how much iron is needed...

Concur with the Flintstones with iron - DD has been taking them since 2 (we split them in 1/2 until she turned 4) and she actually wants to take them and reminds us to give them

We use novaferrum liquid iron drops. Our ped recommended them to increase iron. She said multivitamins with iron will only maintain levels, not increase them. My 2 year old loves the drops, they taste so good! I’ve even tried them and can vouch for the taste.

My 2 year old has low iron and I had a hard time finding ones that didn't have a lot of food dyes, etc. We ended up buying the Renzo's Iron Strong on Amazon and then also doing a separate multi vitamin (Smart Pants toddler gummies) and she happily gobbles everything up. As a tip, make sure that when giving iron that your child doesn't have any Calcium/dairy an hour before or an hour after the vitamin and Calcium blocks iron absorption.

ETA: You will also want to make sure that your child takes iron with Vitamin C (the Renzo ones also have Vitamin C) because Vitamin C increases absorption. I had low iron myself and the no Calcium but with Vit C were the things my doctor told me to do.

We used the novaferrum liquid to increase her levels and now she gets half of a flinstones with iron every day to maintain.

@Shantuck: @Foodnerd81: One of my boys takes Renzo's too and smartypants kids (because we need methylated vitamin forms) (and a probiotic, but that's another story ). He's been taking it daily for over a year and has normal readings. We were told to take it because his MCV was low.