Do you give your LO vitamin D drops? If so, when did you start?
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I do, and I started when my pediatrician told me to, so it was probably around 2 weeks.
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Yep, every day. I don't remember when we started though. It was pretty early on.
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Yes because he was a winter baby, we started at maybe 2 weeks (carlsons off amazon) and stopped once we were outside daily this spring.
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We started at about the one month mark, but she hated it and would often spit up immediately afterwards...so we stopped. Around 4 months I discovered Baby D Drops and we've been using those ever since! So nice because it's literally just one drop and she doesn't even notice
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Same as @scg00387:. LO was born in Nov and we did the drops until about April when we started to have a lot more time out in the sun. My pedi told me he doesn't suggest them to spring/summer babies but does for fall/winter.
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Very interesting! The reason I ask is my pediatrician didn't mention giving them to LO. I wonder if its because he's a summer baby. I'll have to ask at his next appointment.
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We started when my mw recommended it at 6 weeks. Apparently we should have done it sooner, but oh we'll! It's also so hard to remember to do it every day... I'm trying
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@sslm: I forget to do it everyday too!
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yup, we started when he was about 2 days old.
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@Pepper: my pediatrician told us to start at our first appointment two days after getting out of the hospital. We are using d-vi-sol and LO loves the drops!
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yep! starting at 2 weeks and we use Carlsons D Drops !
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We started right away per her pedi. She was born in Feb but I think our practice recommends them for all bf babies. They recommend D-Vi-Sol but we didn't like the artificial colors and flavors so we use Baby D Drops. I drop in right on my nipple and LO has never seemed to notice it.
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I never have (LO is 12 weeks) and my ped never mentioned it! LO was born in April.
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My pediatrician hasn't mentioned it either. Good question!
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We started right when we came home from the hospital. It is hard to remember every day though.
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We did when he wasn't getting out much but after reading into it more, the study that prompted the recommendation featured primarily darker-skinned babies who lived in Michigan. Darker skin=more melonin, more melonin makes it harder for the body to create vitamin D through sun exposure. And living in Michigan, a cooler climate, the babies weren't often exposed to sunlight. So they were found to be deficient in vitamin D.
My LO has a light skin tone and is exposed to the sunshine often, as am I, so it's pretty unlikely he'd be deficient so we don't use vitamin d drops with much regularity.
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My pediatrician mentioned it at 6 months old. I did it once and never again. We haven't had any issues. There are some caveats: he was born in the spring and we live in a place that has sun on average 360 days a year. So I didn't feel the need for it. A place that actually has winter I might have felt differently.
We also had blood tests done a number of times and Vitamin D levels were never low on those tests so I didn't feel like unnecessary drops. If the tests ever came up low I would have done it in a heart beat.
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We started from the beginning (we lived in Seattle). Use Carlson's D drops.
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Yep! Started around two weeks. We are pretty good about remembering to do every day.
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Everyday from the beginning!
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Nope. We live in central California. It's sunny all the time. No need for them here!
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