Hi Everyone,

I have been contacted by a mom who is wanting to get her four month old back
to the breast after their long interesting and scary journey.  She has given
me permission to post her info.

Baby is four months and developed the corona virus at two months.  Baby had
vomiting with bloody diareah, mom took baby
to hospital and she was admitted for seven days.  While in hospital baby was
taken off breastmilk and put on pedialite and neocate during hospital stay
dr's instructions to stay on neocate until baby stabilized (dr's wanted to
make sure baby didn't have golactocemia, which was ruled out) without
vomiting and diareah. On the seventh day baby was released and mom was told
she could resume breastfeeding in two days.

 Twenty four hours after being home baby started with vomiting and diareah
again so back to hospital and baby was admitted this time for three weeks
due to the rotavirus and put on a pickline of sugar water with lipids to
give her stomach a chance to heal. Once they felt baby's tummy healed they
slowly introduced pedialite and progestomil then later adding rice cereal
through a NG tube. Baby is receiving 24cc of this mixture every hour.  Mom
questioned them as to why they would not use her breastmilk and the docs
told her that they were afraid that the breastmilk might be to hard on the
baby's tummy because of the lactose.

I understand that the gut can become sensative but my understanding is that
this is temporary and that breastmilk would be fine, am I wrong????


To make a long story short baby is on a ng tube with progestomil and rice
cereal and has been home now for almost two weeks.  At a doctors appt today
doc still told mom no breastmilk and that she should increase formula
mixture by adding a bolus of 24cc's three times a day along with what baby
is getting from ng tube.  By the way baby weighs 11pounds.

Is this because the doctor is uneducated about breastmilk or is there more
to this and it is me that is uneducated?

Help!  is this the usual treatment for these viruses and WHY not Breastmilk?
I would think that breastmilk would be the best for this baby.  Mom is
telling me that she is going to go against doctors wishes and introduce
breastmilk instead of the formula mixture.  I would love to support her with
this and give her information specifically related to these diseases and
breastmilk, does anyone have any experience with these specific diseases and
if so what was the treatment?

One more thing I have helped her to get baby back suckling at the breast.


Thanks for your help,

Denice Jentlie cpd,cd,clc
Hopefully an IBCLC oneday!

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