&# 128137; Children who are breastfed after one year need additional vitamin D – Online Hospital 2020

For toddlers, nothing is as important as breast milk.

This is why healthcare officials place so much emphasis on encouraging mothers to breastfeed their children.

Despite the good reputation of breast milk as a superfood for infants, it remains insufficient in one area.

"Breast milk is an incredible nutrient for children and has many positive aspects, but the thing she doesn’t have much of is vitamin D.", Dr. Jonathon Maguire, a pediatrician and researcher at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, said Healthline.