As it turns out, daily vitamin D only became standard protocol because babies weren’t spending time in the sun like they used to, due to moms either keeping their babies indoors or keeping them covered up to avoid the harmful effects that sun can have on their skin. Looking for some hope that I wasn’t totally ruining my daughter’s life, I did a little research. Keeping up with one more task felt really overwhelming. When you're a new mom, most days you feel victorious if you get your teeth brushed before 10 a.m. When you're busy cutting grapes into microscopic pieces while alternating which side of his head your newborn is lying on, and your two-year-old just took off her clothes and peed on the floor again, it's hard to make time to give your kids daily vitamin D supplements - especially if you're not even sure they're doing anything for their health. That said, motherhood can be incredibly time-consuming. Every time she suggests I, say, let my babies cry it out, I smile and nod and then forget everything she said as soon as I walk out the door, because I have done enough research to know that those choices aren’t applicable to my own kids. I have three children, so I've come to expect my doctor making suggestions that I don't feel are a good fit for my family. I obsessed that she might become permanently irritable or have soft bones or stop growing because I couldn’t get my act together enough to remember one simple task each day.

I was worried that there might be long-term consequences to not giving my daughter her Vitamin D supplement.

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