Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ali - Update

I'm happy to report Ali is fine and is only vitamin deficient. She is deficient in Vitamin A & D which is apparently very common here in the Czech Republic. Being from the U.S. we don't think much about those vitamins since there is plenty of sunshine and everything is fortified...bread, milk, cereal, flour etc etc. Here we have seen the sun maybe 5 times since fall came around and nothing is fortified. Another aspect of living in a different country that we are now able to deal with. We now have vitamins to give Ali twice a week. I wasn't sure if she would be able to take them since they are gelcaps but she took the first one just fine. When we arrive in the US we will make sure she has all the fortified products we can get...milk, juice etc and we will also stock up on childrens vitamins. We will also make sure the Sofia starts taking vitamins every day so that we don't face the same problem with her.

3 comments:

Brooke Edge said...

so glad to hear that's all it is! your post gave me flashbacks of eating Flintstones vitamins every day as a kid - I wish grown-up vitamins were as fun!

Amanda said...

mmmm, i love flintstones vitamins ;)

The Syvertsens said...

We import vitamins too. Owen loves the gummy Disney ones...they have lots of themes, including princesses!