I have just one more question to pose to the group. One peds practice in our area is requesting that their exclusivley breastfeeding moms give a daily Tri-Vi-Sol vitamins to their babies and state that if babies are taking at least 2 bottles of F.... per day that they do not need to give it. So, the mom I talked to today said she was thinking about doing this, as she says on the other hand she is suffering from supposed low milk supply even though her baby has never had a problem with weight gain. My response was - you are telling me something I am hearing for the very first time. Most of our pediatricians are not offering vitamins at all the breastfeeding babies, because breast milk has all that babies need. I know that docs are concerned about Vitamin D, and I closely listened to mom as she told me he only risk factor in pregnancy was difficulty gaining enough weight. She only gained 10 lbs and she now is well below her prepregnancy weight, however all in all baby has done well and continued to gain well at 10 weeks post delivery. My question is how many of the Peds you know are offering viitamins - is this new info or are these docs just not following the mainstream? (Of course I know that all of this is really unnecessary and that breast milk is just FINE the way it is .....another sigh!!!!) LuAnn Smith RN, IBCLC York, PA _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html