Hi Winnie In answer to your question: Isn't there some way babies can be monitored for Vit. D status if there is any risk they might not be getting enough? Just because some wind up with a metabolic deficiency shouldn't be reason enough to bombard everyone with that substance "just in case". My observation is: Where I work in Melb Australia we measure the mothers vitamin d status antenatally and if low, When the baby is born that are commenced on Pentavite infant vitamins 0.45mls/day (sorry I am at home so can't refer to the levels) Pentavite contains : Active Ingredients: Each 5ml contains: Retinyl palmitate (equiv. to Vit.A 3600 IU)...1.98mg Thiamine hydrochloride (Vit.B1)...............1.2mg Riboflavine sodium phosphate (eqiv. to Vit.B2 1.8mg)...2.5mg Dexapanthenol ................................640ug Nicotinamide ................................15.8mg Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vit.B6).............300ug Ascorbic Acid (vit.C) .........................95mg Vitamin D3 ..................................22.5ug All the term babies I have seen on this have been from 'dark skinned covered up mums'. We have a proportion of African, Moslem and Somalian mums. We do not treat all breastfeeding babies on mass with supplements. Cheers Karen Clements RM IBCLC Melb Aust *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html