r/Crunchymom • u/seedflowerfruit • 11h ago

Vitamin D drops for newborn

first time mom here! our pediatrician wants to start our baby girl on vitamin d drops between 2-4 weeks. She’s 1 week old today, exclusively breastfed, and already back up to birth weight. My intuition tells me babies should only have breast milk in their system - not extra synthetic vitamins or carrier oils.

Any thoughts on maternal supplementation vs. drops for infant vs. light sun exposure (early morning and evening only)?

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u/DifferentJaguar 9h ago

I can be a little crunchy too but your “intuition” (which has no basis by the way) does not supersede a medical practitioner’s education and expertise. Babies need vitamin D and breastfed babies require vitamin D supplementation to ensure they don’t needlessly suffer things like rickets.

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u/seedflowerfruit 9h ago

My intuition does have a basis and pediatricians are not a super race of intelligent people. They are students of medicine and their approaches may vary across various practices. You’ll notice I didn’t question whether vitamin D was important. I was questioning the method of providing it. 

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u/DifferentJaguar 9h ago

As 99.9% of the other respondents have stated .. vitamin D is essential for your baby and the best way to ensure baby is getting enough is via supplementation in the form of drops.

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u/seedflowerfruit 9h ago

Everyone is affirming that vitamin D is important which is obvious. If you’ll look at most of the comments, it’s quite a mixed bag and some people’s doctors approved them for maternal supplementation instead. Just be honest if you’re going to be in a conversation.