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WE have had complaints from mothers about babies getting more "gassy" after introduction of the larger volume vitamin d products (about 1 cc). I'm not understanding what the problem is about putting a drop on mom's nipple of the tasteless, odorless vitamin d solution. I take this myself and just drop it directly into my mouth with a meal.
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From: Lactation Information and Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Burger
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 10:46 AM
Subject: Vitamin D drops
The last time the AAP revised the guidelines on vitamin D drops and dropped the age at which drops should be introduced to right after birth, I combed the article to find any evidence to support that there was any difference in outcome between implementing that practice immediately or waiting until the baby is older -- say 2 weeks to a month of age. There was virtually NO research on introduction of vitamin D drops so early. So we really don't know if there is any additional benefit from shoving a dropper into the mouth of a 1, 2 or 3 day old infant that may warrant which might possibly contribute to oral aversions in some babies or cause some mothers to drop the vitamin D drops entirely because they don't like giving it to their babies. I've seen enough moms to know that this is frequently the reason why they abandon using the vitamin D drops.
So it seems to me in the face of zero research to justify the earlier introduction of vitamin D drops, putting the drops on the mother's nipple in the early days when a baby is in the hospital until such time that using a dropper becomes less invasive once breastfeeding is firmly established is a very sensible idea.
If you go to the AAP policy statements on vitamin D or iron supplementation -- you'll see that there is a neonatologist who questioned such early use of droppers -- but I'm not sure whether it was the iron or the D statement.
Best, Susan Burger
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