I was wondering if anyone gives their baby supplements? When we were at the paediatricians the other day I asked about the rice cereal being a bubs 1st food and if that was just for the iron content or if there were other foods he thought were better and what he recommended for iron if I didn't feed my baby the iron fortified rice cereal. We weren't there to see him for diet advice but thought I'd ask the questions seeing we were paying $150 for the visit kwim Anyway he said that he recommends that all babies be given a mulitvitamin and iron supplement pretty much from birth, if not at least by 4 months where he said that some sort of soilds should be introduced and if you weren't starting solids at 4 months than at least start the vitamins.

We had planed to start solids at 6 months but thought it might be ok to start the vitamins soon. My concern is that I know many bubs can get constipted with iron fortified rice cereal let alone suppliments as even I did during pregnancy so I used to take about 30mls of grape juice with my tablet and that balanced things out. For a bub I thought pear could do the same thing but I know that pear can also disturb the digestive system so I'm a bit confused as to what I will do.

So my question is do you give vitamins and when did you start them and what did you give them. He suggested pentavite multivitamin and ferro drops for iron.

If you've given iron did you have problems with it like constipation?