Breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed your baby.  It provides the baby with essential vitamins and minerals and also protect the baby from infections. However most experts believe that simply eating a balance diet may not be enough to ensure that nursing mothers get enough nutrients to maintain optimal health. Most health care professionals suggest  taking some sort of vitamins to supplement your  diet.

 
Most women decide to continue with prenatal vitamins  they used during pregnancy. However nursing mothers have unique nutritional needs that may not be addressed by prenatal vitamins.

Postnatal vitamins for nursing mothers

 
Postnatal vitamins are formulated to meet the nutritional needs of breastfeeding mothers. They provide 100% of the essential vitamins and minerals needed by nursing women. They  also contain additional amounts of certain vitamins known to be particularly important to nursing mothers.

Postnatal vitamins contain 700% daily value of Vitamin D and 200% daily value of B vitamins.  Vitamin D prevents a whole range of  diseases including diabetes and various forms of cancer.

The current Daily Value for vitamin D is set at only 400 IU . Most experts believe this amount is grossly underestimated  for our needs. Nursing Postnatal includes 700% of the Daily Value (2800 IU) of Vitamin D. This is to ensure that breastfeeding moms get sufficient levels of vitamin D and their breast milk contains vitamin D.
 
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