Here's a comment on Vit D by the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine:

"TO: the Editor, NYT
RE: "Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Babies."
Science Section, August 26th 2008
DATE: August 29, 2008
It is clear that vitamin D content of human milk is variable and directly
related to
maternal vitamin D status. Human milk is not deficient in vitamin D per se;
rather,
it is deficient in vitamin D when mother is deficient. Vitamin D transfer
into
mothers' milk is predictable: a deficient woman has little to transfer to
her infant
via her milk; if her status improves, transfer of vitamin D in her milk to
the baby
will also. Maternal vitamin D deficiency and resultant nutritional rickets
in her
nursing infant is preventable: supplementation of the infant with vitamin D
will
ameliorate deficiency in that age group, but does not address maternal
needs..
Adverse effects associated with vitamin D deficiency affect bone development
and innate immunity such that no woman and her baby should be deficient. We
must prescribe a safe intervention that will achieve sufficiency in both
mother and
infant and not blame human milk as the culprit, but rather, see the problem
as the
larger public health issue that it is.
Caroline Chantry, MD Karla Shepard Rubinger
President Executive Director
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
140 Huguenot Street 3rd floor
New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215
Carol L. Wagner, MD
Medical University of South Carolina"

-Marie Farver

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