Got a call today from a woman who works for a local OB.  She is the  African 
American mother of a baby whom she breastfed for 10 months who was  diagnosed 
with Rickets at 8 months and she is now making it her personal mission  to 
inform all agencies like LLL, LC's in hospitals and offices, OB's,  
pediatricians, etc. that all babies who are breastfed should be "on a multi  vitamin plus a 
bottle of formula a day", in particular Aftrican American  babies who do not 
absorb Vit D from sunlight in the way that light skinned  babies do.  She was 
very angry and wanted me to tell her that LLL would  endorse this policy.  Of 
course I could not do that and though she would  not let me get a word in, I 
tried to tell her that indeed LLLI was very aware of  the need for Vitamin D 
supplementation in breastfed babies particularly in dark  skinned babies, BUT, 
that I needed to determine their exact position on the  matter before I 
committed to this stand.  She does not have email so I got  her address and told her 
that I would send her all the info I could find, but  that there would be no 
way that LLL would endorse formula.  I cannot find a  very current up to the 
minute position on this issue from LLLI.  I don't  want the vague writing in BAB 
that is now dated.    I have  checked the Lactnet archives but, I feel that 
if I send this woman any info that  is related to Caucasian babies, it will 
only fuel her fire.  I really need  something specific to dark skin.  Is there in 
fact, a way to take Vit D  supplementation without taking a multi vitamin 
complex?  Any  suggestions?  Thanks, Ann Conlon-Smith, IBCLC, LLLL

 
 




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