>I have a different question regarding blood sugar levels.  A woman from
>Belguim told me that her doctor there said that high blood sugar levels in
>mothers causes their breastfed babies to be collicky. Has anyone ever heard
>of this?
>Thanks, Chayn (with a very soft gutteral 'ch')


Hmmm...sounds like (yet) another misinterpretation of the Fisher/Woolridge
work on lactose being higher when mothers deliberately restrict the time
the baby is 'allowed' to be on the breast.

This means the milk is proportionately higher in lactose, and this can
cause the baby to show colic like symptoms.

It's nothing to do with the mother's own blood sugar level.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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