Changing the amount of iron in the mother's diet will not change the amount
of iron the baby gets from the milk. Nature protects the baby from getting
too much iron. It wouldn't matter if the mother ate nails, the amount of
iron in her milk wouldn't change.
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
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