Breastfeeding: Baby Extra Vitamins
In breast milk are nearly all the nutrients your baby needs to grow. Only vitamin K and D are not sufficient. Your child has needed for blood clotting vitamin K and vitamin D for proper bone development.
Vitamin K
If your baby is breastfeeding, you need him the first thirteen weeks of extra vitamin K issue. Vitamin K is important for blood clotting. If your baby has too little of this, hemorrhages can occur. Vitamin K is not naturally present in breast milk. A supplement is necessary. It is recommended that your baby additional 25 micrograms of Vitamin K per day to give. After three months your baby is enough vitamin K to itself.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is not sufficient in milk. From the age of one week, he also need vitamin D supplements. Vitamin D helps the body to absorb calcium in the bones. So your child build a strong skeleton. Until his fourth birthday, a supplement of 10 micrograms vitamin D per day is recommended.
Babies more than a pint bottle-fed, do not need supplements. To bottle-feeding all the vitamins and minerals added in the right quantities.
Vitamin K and vitamin D supplements if you buy at the drugstore or pharmacy.
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