Vitamin D question

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I noticed someone was asking about vitamin D in breastfed babies.

Please don't believe what doctors say, they are not educated in exclusive

breastfeeding management and don't know much about the composition of

breastmilk. I am a trained volunteer breastfeeding counsellor and mother of a

fully breastfed son who never had any vitamin d supplement.

Vitamin D is produced naturally by the skin under sun exposure. So, if you

exspose your baby to daylight, not even sun, every day, for only 10 minutes

(only face and hands need to be exposed to get the benefit), your baby will

produce enough vitamin D. I am going to send a link from the LLL website for

more info on this.

I am sure that some pharmaceutical company is behind this nonsenese advice.

Breastmilk has some vitamin D in it if the mother eats foods rich in vitamin D,

like fish and eggs. A baby, just like all humans, needs daylight to thrive and

this is where vitamin D is produced.

Only people who cover up their faces (women in some cultures do) and hands

need to supplement themselves and their babies. I get so cross when the doctors

make this a blanket recommenadation, just like vacciantion. One size fits

all... well, it doesn't work like that, we are all unique. Here is the website:

http://www.lalecheleague.org/FAQ/vitamin.html

Ingrid