Paul Saladino· MD
because most moms don't have enough vitamin d in their breast milk or in their bodies because they're not getting enough
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because most moms don't have enough vitamin d in their breast milk or in their bodies because they're not getting enough
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breast milk also contains very little vitamin d certainly not enough to prevent vitamin d deficiency in exclusively breast-fed infants but recent studies have shown that moms who take a daily high-dose vitamin d supplement of 6400 ius a day can increase the vitamin d concentration of their breast milk to a level that provides sufficient vitamin d intake for their infant