https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:02:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2052041 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:54:26 +0000 MrsF 2052041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup! Actually, I have done it today. Thanks for the reminder! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2052019 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:44:35 +0000 Meridian 2052019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, and I usually manage to remember MOST of the time! It looks yucky though, so I'm interested in trying the tasteless versions that posters mentioned above!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051856 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 10:28:56 +0000 nana87 2051856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>our dr recommended and I always, always forget to give it to her, oops! I need to get better at remembering...I also need to remember my own vitamins, shoot... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051851 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 10:23:43 +0000 .twist. 2051851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sera_87: Ain't that the truth. </p> <p>Yes, I think everyone here is low on vit d. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051831 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 10:05:19 +0000 avivoca 2051831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't do it very often, and definitely didn't when she was an infant. The drops smelled/tasted horrible and it was a fight to get them in her. Now, I put them in her yogurt and she eats it up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051741 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:54:35 +0000 looch 2051741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I asked our ped about this, she said that even with being outside, the pollution is an issue and you're not getting as much Vit D as you think you are by being outside. </p> <p>I was surprised to hear that, even though it's really logical. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051735 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:51:51 +0000 edelweiss 2051735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we used carlson when we remembered. which wasn't that often, ack. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051731 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:45:44 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2051731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, we live in the south though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051721 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:32:45 +0000 autumn865 2051721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH ordered the baby D drops from Amazon so hopefully our LO has a better reaction! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051613 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 05:59:20 +0000 miramira 2051613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, the National Health Service here recommends giving children aged 6 months to 5 years vitamins A, C and D supplements:</p> <p>"Vitamin D only occurs naturally in a few foods, such as oily fish and eggs. It is also added to some foods such as fat spreads and breakfast cereals. The best source of vitamin D is summer sunlight on their skin. However, it’s sensible to keep your child’s skin safe in the sun. Children shouldn’t be out too long in the sun in hot weather. Remember to cover up or protect their skin before it turns red or burns.<br /> It's important that children still receive vitamin drops, even if they get out in the sun.<br /> All babies and young children aged six months to five years should take a daily supplement containing vitamin D in the form of vitamin drops, to help them to meet the requirement set for this age group of 7-8.5 micrograms of vitamin D per day. However, babies who are fed infant formula will not need vitamin drops until they are receiving less than 500ml (about a pint) of infant formula a day, as these products are fortified with vitamin D. If you are breastfeeding your baby and you didn’t take vitamin D supplements throughout pregnancy, your health visitor may advise you to give your baby vitamin drops containing vitamin D from the age of one month."</p> <p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/vitamins-for-children.aspx#close" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/vitamins-for-children.aspx#close</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051609 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 04:41:45 +0000 Pumuckl 2051609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same thing here as @lamariniere: stated. They're prescribed to all infants for the first two winters here. So currently both of my kids take Vit D. Even if you go outside every day in winter in these nordic regions you don't get enough Vit D even as an adult. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051606 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 04:29:29 +0000 lamariniere 2051606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but I'm in Austria, which has really long grey winters. We are supposed to give them until she's 18 months...but I'm really not very good at remembering! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051591 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:49:17 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 2051591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep - Midwest tundra here and we just ordered the carlsons. Gotta be super careful to give proper dose though, because overdose on Vit D is just as bad as not enough </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051588 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:19:53 +0000 HabesBabe 2051588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Carlson drops are supposed to be good-- no nasty smell or taste. </p> <p>Our pediatrician recommended it, but I decided against it. We live in SoCal, kids were both born in summer, and my mom takes them for 2+ hour walls to the park everyday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051575 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:15:31 +0000 turquoisemama 2051575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, she will eat it but makes weird faces and gagged when we have it to her last night. I tasted it and it was nasty! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051553 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:00:43 +0000 PinkElephant 2051553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everyone in my family takes vitamin d - baby, todfler, hubby, and myself. The kids get drops, which I buy at Whole Foods - we've had a few different brands; I just make sure I get infant ones - some say 4yrs+. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051432 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:42:39 +0000 Canoli 2051432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never did with my first son but with my second I did when I remembered. We used the Carlson brand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051430 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:42:12 +0000 littlejoy 2051430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've done vit D all year. It's 1 drop per day ... nothing that I could imagine would make her sick (it's such a little amount). I might look into a different brand?</p> <p>Vit D levels are very low in the winter.</p> <p>I know people suggest it doesn't transfer, but my midwives were always suggesting I be cautious with the vit d (I was taking it too, and they said it we were outside that day, to not give her the drops). </p> <p>Maybe a 2nd opinion from a different medical professional would be best. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051422 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:37:25 +0000 Mrs. Pen 2051422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, we're Minnesotan and vitamin d levels are low even in the summer. </p> <p>I was surprised that some brands have some added stuff or unhealthy oils, I bought one that is made with olive oil and another brand with coconut oil. Never seemed to bother him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051396 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:14:28 +0000 FannyMae 2051396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my OB told me to give baby Pentavite after she was born - my blood test showed I was low in Vitamin D, and I guess its routine for breast fed babies if mum is low? I didn't use it very long, it was a bright pinapple fluro yellow colour and she spat it out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051394 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:13:27 +0000 mrsjyw 2051394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep we had a Nov baby and live in MI where our winters are long, gloomy, etc. we used the Carlson drops. I just out on my nip before nighttime nursing session. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051392 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:12:43 +0000 Bao 2051392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No he did not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051387 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:09:04 +0000 Foodnerd81 2051387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: it tasted so gross but I would give it to C like dessert after dinner (after she started solids). She loved it! The polivisol was even grosser and she still loved t. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051382 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:06:03 +0000 Astro Bee 2051382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just learned about it a few weeks ago at our baby prep class. We haven't seen a ped, but the public health nurse recommended it.</p> <p>We're Canadian, and definitely don't get enough vitamin D here in the winter. However, there has been a surge of vitamin D deficiencies in modern families over the last decade or more, simply because people's lifestyles have changed and people aren't put spending as much time outside. It's not just a problem here in Canada. I believe formula contains a sufficient amount of vitamin D. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051374 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:57:57 +0000 Adira 2051374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, our pediatrician recommended it too. I'm not good about doing it every day, but I try. I give it right before nursing, which seems to work for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051371 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:56:46 +0000 snowjewelz 2051371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup ped recommended tri v sol and we got d vi sol. I tried it and it tastes nasty to me but DD seems to like it haha. I also ordered one on Amazon that's only 1 drop needed 1 search for Carlson Lab. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051367 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:55:36 +0000 tinyperson 2051367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, even at her 2 year appointment our ped recommended that we continue giving it to her </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051362 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:54:03 +0000 sapphire 2051362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Vitamin D is the one thing that there isn't enough of in breast milk. Try a brand that only has bit D in it instead of the combined vitamins. Baby D drops work well for most. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051336 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:27:23 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2051336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours did. I gave DD1 vitamin drops until she was 15 months. She saw me giving them to DD2 this morning and ran over to get some. Figure it can't hurt in a Canadian winter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-pedi-recommend-vitamin-d-drops-for-your-infant#post-2051315 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:15:41 +0000 brownie 2051315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The pediatrician recommended it, I bought it and I never gave him any. He was born in the spring, in California and I just made sure he got plenty of sun. If it was winter where we couldn't be outside nearly every day I wouldn't think twice. But we got multiple blood test for all sorts of things for his other issues and his vitamin d was never low. </p>