Vitamin D and Breast Milk

Recent research on vitamin D reinforces the need for supplementation for infants and breastfeeding mothers. For those of you on Facebook, you’ve seen a picture of me with my pretend grandson Riley who will be one this month (when one of your pretend daughters has a baby, it’s your pretend grandchild). I want to make sure he stays healthy as he continues to grow. Vitamin D is important especially because he lives in Grand Rapids where sunshine is at a premium several months of the year. Let’s look at the research.

Breastfeeding is important for many reasons . . .

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