What a topic! - Again, not so exciting I thought the zoo topic was much more thrilling right?! Calcium however is a topic we cannot avoid. Well, calcium and Vitamin D. I never used to think much about calcium and the importance of it in our diet. Those times are long gone ;) I think they ended when Alena was no longer interested in drinking her Isomil Advance (wow I cannot believe that I am actually no longer sure on the name of the formula for toddlers...). Our clinic prescribed calcium as soon as she was off formula. First she liked to drink soy milk. At 3-1/2 or so she started to prefer water. Luckily she ate/eats soy yogurt and loved/loves sparkling water which also contains some calcium. These days she is back "on" with chocolate soy milk, and OJ fortified with Calcium & Vitamin D.
Mia Rose on the other hand stopped taking her bottle much earlier. She liked soy milk in the beginning, but now she will only drink it sporadically...some chocolate soy milk maybe once or twice a week. Mia Rose however LOVES OJ. We go through at least 2 cartons a week, sometimes 3 and I do not even drink OJ....
Both girls take calcium supplements which also have Vitamin D in them. The really great thing is that they love their supplement so much that they will ask for it. The other good thing is that it makes me also take calcium supplement. So every morning, and evening Alena, Mia Rose & myself chow down on a delicious calcium supplement.
When we were in Europe this summer we met with a couple of families in Berlin. It was interesting to find out that they do not supplement calcium at all. You know why? Well, they do allow - and clinics in Europe encourage it - some aged cheeses...Isn't that interesting? I will write more on that topic another time...
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What kind/name of supplement do you all take??
We actually brought calcium back from Europe. It is chewable, contains both calcium and vitamin D. Our clinic is currently looking to see if it is also available stateside...
What do you use?
our dietition put Anna on ultra strengh Tums, 1/day. she loves the berry flavoured ones
I'm haveing a hard time getting anna to take vitamins since the companies has removed sugar, (they all taste like saw dust now) ...have they done this in the states too?
My daughter just takes the TriVitamin drops with fluoride, vitamin A,C,& D...I can't get her to take the chewables and all the other liquid supplements I've tried she turns her nose at...of coarse I don't blame her they smell really bad and the taste isn't so good either
Leslie to answer your question the vitamins in the States all contain some type of sugar.
Our dietitian did a full evaluation on liquid multi-vitamins and she recomended Schiff's Multi. We currently are not using a multi, only the calcium with the vitamin D in it.
In the beginning Alena did not take any of the chewable calciums either that's when our clinic prescribed the liquid calcium. Our pharmacy added mint flavor and Alena loved it. - I got the chewable "Sandoz" chews on our last trip to Europe.
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