I'd be interested in thoughts on this.....I have done a rough 
estimate of the number of women I have spoken to or met who were 
breastfeeding over the past 25 years, and I think it comes to about 
10,000. I am in touch with many others indirectly through tuition of 
students and supervision.  Our UK-based email lists have been going 
for several years and have all racked up 1000s and 1000s of posts.

I cannot remember anyone asking about blood in a baby's stools. Not 
one peson, not one student, not one post. I'd be interested in other 
UK Lactnetters commenting on this.

I have been meaning to ask Lactnet for a while if this is something 
that happens to US babies and not UK babies....there must be some 
reason why I never see this, and yet it is a fairly common issue on 
Lactnet.

Now Valerie's post asking about Vitamin D drops makes me wonder if 
this is a clue.

UK babies do sometimes have vitamin drops, but not usually - the 
official recommendation is for bf babies to have Vitamin D & A after 
6 mths (I always explain this with ref to sunlight, and the fact that 
formula milk already has the supps added in) but as far as I can 
tell, this isn't really adhered to.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, UK

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