Iron animia runs big in all the girls and women in my family. I am trying to let or hope it doesn't happen to my babygirl. She will be 11 months in a few day and I thought she was getting enough iron and formula, but my sister and her friend had told me they think my DD isn't getting enough. My daughter gets a multi-vitamin (enfamil poly vi sol) which has 10mg (about 67% DV) of iron in it for infants. My baby also gets 18 oz worth of formula though out the day. She gets a mix of infant and toddler formulas. Infant formula has 1.8mg of iron per 5 oz of formula and ther toddler formula has 2mg per 5 oz. DD gets about 9 oz of the infant formula and 9 oz of toddler formula. Plus she gets spoon feed too.
1 out of 9 people have a disorder that causes them to be unable to excrete iron. For those people, iron supplements can be harmful. I never knew I had this until last year but I was born with it.
Moral of the story, get the child's iron checked if you are worried.
Quoting trinitysmama33:yeah she's doing fine and thing is good...just im just worring for nothing
You're a good mom!
Do you turn your kid loose in the kitchen?
- trinitysmama33
on Jan. 29, 2013 at 2:21 PM