Baby Won't Take Poly-Vi-Sol Vitamins

Hi R.,
First of all, I am going to try to be PC about your Ped, but here goes: if your Ped truelly supports your breast-feeding decisions, then why the need for the Poly-Vi-Sol vitamins? You and I both know that your breast milk provides all the necessary nutrients that your child needs.
I of course am basing this on the belief that you nursed your first child, if not, then I highly recommend a LaLeche consultant as a support and resource. Second, if you are taking the pre-natal vitamins she is receiving plenty of iron.
If you have stopped, or your body could not handle the pre-natal vitamin, then find an iron tab, that you can take and that should suffice. Also, if you increase your spinach, gorbanzo beans(chic peas), other high iron food in-take that would benefit greatly as well. The more natural approach over any struggle is well worth the happy day, you and she will have together. She is happy with you and breast milk is sufficient. Your family choice is no solids for now and that is an excellent choice--keep up the way God and nature intended babies to be in the world.
Good luck and God Bless. I hope I did not come off too strong, sometimes I do when I see advice given that seems out of sink with God and nature.
M. N.

This may not be a popular answer, but I didn't give them to my daughter. Breastmilk is the perfect food for babies and has all the nutrition she needs at this age. When my daughters were older and eating baby food, I would mix a little in with their fruit or cereal. When they were old enough to chew I started giving them the chewable toddler vitamins.

The way I got my son to take any medicine at that age was to take the dropper and put a pea size amount on a spoon and spoon feed it to him, it worked, took a little longer to give it to him but he wasnt able to gag it or spit it out.

Good Luck

Hope it helps

This may not apply since she may not be eating fruit. But I used to make a "smoothie" that was really pureed fruit with a little breast milk and mixed the drops in there. She loved it.

Continue yourself to take a vitamin with ron in it. It will be passed on through your milk. My Dr. told me while nursing to continue my prenatal vitamins for that purpose. Good luck to you:)

I had a similar problem with my little girl. She wasn't too bad about taking them, but she spit them up every time. Like you said, we ruined some outfits & stained some burp cloths. Eventually, we just quit giving them to her, figuring if she wasn't actually keeping them down, they weren't doing her any good anyway.

Does your baby really need them? My daughter never got them, and I breastfed for a year. My Dr. thought they were unnecessary. Oh, and why wait on cereal? It is a good source of iron and won't interfere with breastfeeding.