Dr. Raymond Adelman wrote the following information in a Phoenix, AZ newspaper, March 31, 2003. Please feel free to send your questions or comments to: [log in to unmask] or call him at 602-546-0196. Q: Should breast-fed babies get vitamin D to prevent rickets? A. Yes. Rickets is usually caused by inadequate vitamin D intake., leading to poor mineral deposits in growing bones. It can be associated with growth failure, irritability, deformed bones and even siezures. Although breast milk is ideal nutrition for infants, it's short of vitamin D. Breatsfed babies will need a daily supplement. Bottle-fed babies should get adequete vitimin D from formula. I thought the people that work or volunteer with mothers that are considering to breastfeed or are already breastfeeding may have a comment or two to this newspaper. Thanks, Annette Leibovitz *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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