Anonymous wrote:My 8yo doesn’t drink any cows milk, never has. It’s for baby cows. I’m not saying you need to go vegan but don’t sweat something not designed for humans in the first place. You can get vitamin D from the sun assuming you go outside a lot. If your kid eats cheese and yogurt, or smoothies, they will be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole “you need milk for vitamin D” is kind of ridiculous because milk doesn’t naturally have much vitamin D in it, it’s added to it. So you can just add vitamin D to other stuff and it works just as well.

Yeah but it absorbs better with fat.

Milk is easy, cheap and readily available to kids. I’d keep working at it, OP. DCUM is way too fast to choose the “no milk” camp for a toddler after refusing milk for one day!

+1. Ha ha! It really is so DCUM!

Parent posts: my toddler won’t eat broccoli

DCUM: hundreds of responses on ways to prepare broccoli; how you have to offer it 100 times before you know they won’t eat it; someone calling someone else ridiculous or a fast food pusher, etc.

But

Parent: my toddler won’t drink milk from a cup and it happened twice.

DCUM: your child doesn’t need milk! Forget about it and give him cod liver oil...

Cod liver oil is a waaaaaay better choice than milk. I mean, this is actually excellent advice.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole “you need milk for vitamin D” is kind of ridiculous because milk doesn’t naturally have much vitamin D in it, it’s added to it. So you can just add vitamin D to other stuff and it works just as well.

Yeah but it absorbs better with fat.

Milk is easy, cheap and readily available to kids. I’d keep working at it, OP. DCUM is way too fast to choose the “no milk” camp for a toddler after refusing milk for one day!

+1. Ha ha! It really is so DCUM!

Parent posts: my toddler won’t eat broccoli

DCUM: hundreds of responses on ways to prepare broccoli; how you have to offer it 100 times before you know they won’t eat it; someone calling someone else ridiculous or a fast food pusher, etc.

But

Parent: my toddler won’t drink milk from a cup and it happened twice.

DCUM: your child doesn’t need milk! Forget about it and give him cod liver oil...

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Anonymous wrote:The whole “you need milk for vitamin D” is kind of ridiculous because milk doesn’t naturally have much vitamin D in it, it’s added to it. So you can just add vitamin D to other stuff and it works just as well.

Yeah but it absorbs better with fat.

Milk is easy, cheap and readily available to kids. I’d keep working at it, OP. DCUM is way too fast to choose the “no milk” camp for a toddler after refusing milk for one day!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole “you need milk for vitamin D” is kind of ridiculous because milk doesn’t naturally have much vitamin D in it, it’s added to it. So you can just add vitamin D to other stuff and it works just as well.

Yeah but it absorbs better with fat.

Milk is easy, cheap and readily available to kids. I’d keep working at it, OP. DCUM is way too fast to choose the “no milk” camp for a toddler after refusing milk for one day!

Anonymous wrote:The whole “you need milk for vitamin D” is kind of ridiculous because milk doesn’t naturally have much vitamin D in it, it’s added to it. So you can just add vitamin D to other stuff and it works just as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to echo the above loudly for those saying milk isn’t necessary:


Yes, milk isn’t necessary however VITAMIN D IS NECESSARY.

I’ve only found one brand of whole milk yogurt that adds vitamin d to their kids yogurt (Stonyfield) and they don’t add an adequate amount. Two cups of milk gives a child adequate vitamin d.

Soy milk
Free range egg yolks
Cheerios
Fortified orange juice
Vitamin d gummies
Cod liver oil
Sunlight

You’re wrong about sunlight, PP. especially for darker complexions. And my soy milk doesn’t have vitamin d. Plus D is better absorbed with fat like milk rather than OJ.


Never gummies for toddlers!! The drops aren’t that bad or get a liquid multi vitamin with D.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to echo the above loudly for those saying milk isn’t necessary:


Yes, milk isn’t necessary however VITAMIN D IS NECESSARY.

I’ve only found one brand of whole milk yogurt that adds vitamin d to their kids yogurt (Stonyfield) and they don’t add an adequate amount. Two cups of milk gives a child adequate vitamin d.

Soy milk
Free range egg yolks
Cheerios
Fortified orange juice
Vitamin d gummies
Cod liver oil
Sunlight

You’re wrong about sunlight, PP. especially for darker complexions. And my soy milk doesn’t have vitamin d. Plus D is better absorbed with fat like milk rather than OJ.


Never gummies for toddlers!! The drops aren’t that bad or get a liquid multi vitamin with D.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to echo the above loudly for those saying milk isn’t necessary:


Yes, milk isn’t necessary however VITAMIN D IS NECESSARY.

I’ve only found one brand of whole milk yogurt that adds vitamin d to their kids yogurt (Stonyfield) and they don’t add an adequate amount. Two cups of milk gives a child adequate vitamin d.

Soy milk
Free range egg yolks
Cheerios
Fortified orange juice
Vitamin d gummies
Cod liver oil
Sunlight

Anonymous wrote:I want to echo the above loudly for those saying milk isn’t necessary:


Yes, milk isn’t necessary however VITAMIN D IS NECESSARY.

I’ve only found one brand of whole milk yogurt that adds vitamin d to their kids yogurt (Stonyfield) and they don’t add an adequate amount. Two cups of milk gives a child adequate vitamin d.