"We are Flintstones kids- 10 million strong and growing..." (BTW- how freaking cute are those 1980s kids in that commercial? I wonder where they are now...)
Sigh.
Remember the good old days? When there was only one brand of kids vitamins- Flintstones Kids Vitamins. I'm pretty sure they were actually candy and not vitamins, but anyway. Nobody used to worry if babies got enough Vitamin D or iron, but like many "advances" in science- there is another one out there to ruin our fun and carefree lives. Apparently babies need more Vitamin D than they get from the sun now that we have realized that putting your baby out to sun bathe (it's just a base tan!) is a no no! Oh and apparently breastfed babies might not get enough iron? But from what I have read on that/heard from two different doctors at our pediatrician's office, the jury is still out on that one. Great, another place where research is making my head spin- should I worry about Asher's iron levels or not? Should I force feed him spinach? Should I give him baby vitamins with iron? If I don't do these things will his brain stop growing and then he won't grow up to be a genius who goes to Harvard for undergrad and then gets his Ph'D at MIT and then goes on to be the inventor of the next iPhone/discoverer of the cure for cancer/CEO of Costco/billionaire philanthropist and it will be all my fault?!!!!!!! Long sigh... Dramatic Pause... Guys, what do I do?!!!!
Anyway, so I decided to listen to the doctor at Asher's pediatrician's office who said he probably doesn't need the iron supplement as long as he eats enough food with iron. This advice was seconded by the person at Kellymom who has apparently become an internet authority on such matters. Just who exactly is this Kellymom and why are we giving her so much power over our lives, but I digress. And then I started panicking, because Asher doesn't like his iron fortified HappyBellies Brown Rice Cereal as much as he did initially and one can only force feed a baby so much spinach. So I impulse bought some Enfamil Poly Vi Sol (whatever the heck that means) with iron while at Target the other day. Supposedly these vitamin drops have what is called a "fruit" flavor, however just exactly what fruit isn't specified. I now know why no specific fruit is listed, because there is no fruit known as DISGUSTING IODINE CHEMICALLY SMELL. No friends, there is no such fruit and as far as I'm concerned the folks at Enfamil have some explaining to do. You know it's not going to be pretty when mom is gagging as she twists off the top to the vitamins. I literally gagged. I told myself that I was being dramatic (that would be a first...) and just to give Asher the dropper of vitamins. The poor little guy immediately gagged and looked at me with his classic "I trusted you and you just screwed me, thanks for nothing Mom"™ face. I felt badly, but not to be dissuaded (you'll thank me one day later, Asher) I decided I'd try again the next day. This time taking the manufacturer's advice to disguise it with the baby's meal in the case that for some reason didn't like the vitamins on their own. Brilliant, Enfamil. Just brilliant- you've obviously never encountered a child with a rat like nose. Picture me wearing sweet potatoes on my face after my little poison detecting baby gagged and spit sweet potatoes all over me the second the vitamin laced spoon touched his little tongue. What fun. So yeah, I will not be using these drops again or at least not until I wake up in the middle of the night panicking that my future cancer cure finding scientist isn't getting enough iron in his diet. Which means he'll probably get them again tomorrow. Any other less crazy mom's out there have a solution to this MAJOR PARENTING DILEMMA™?
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