June,
    Don't forget, it is possible to be sensitive to goat's milk, despite popular misconceptions to the contrary.  The proteins are still non-human ones and the fats and sugars aren't human, and it seems unnecessary to change to it from a replacement food that was (apparently) tolerated.  If it is home-modified fresh or powdered goat milk, it will be deficient in folate and in other minerals and vit B6 (pyridoxine).  If it is a factory-modified product (a "formula"), I'm not sure if the current ones have folate - I'm currently looking at 20th-century ones, and am not sure what the contents are in 2003.  There's a 1982 report in Clinical Pediatrics I have in front of me, of an adopted baby who suffered convulsions after being changed from a standard ABM to "a powdered goat's milk formula", which required supplementary pyridoxin and iron - which weren't given.(1)  A MEDLINE search will find you other articles.

(1) Johnston GM. Powdered goat's milk" pyridoxine deficiency and status epilepticus. Clin Pediatr 1982 (aug):494-495.

   If the baby is feeding "for hours", perhaps s/he is taking care of the breastmilk supply and giving it a boost.  I have just come back on Lactnet and missed the early part of this strand, and so am not clear about the mother's health history and her prospects for a complete breastmilk supply.  So I'll leave those issues to others.
    Virginia
    in Brisbane

June, in New Zealand, wrote:
"Has anyone had babies on Goat's Milk?
"My client with the hypothyroid  and augmentation is now expressing 30 =
mls after each feed. ( taking blessed thistle and Fenugreek)  She took =
baby to a a cranio-oestopath and it was advised  to change to  goats =
milk as its the closest formula to breast milk?   That night baby was =
extremely unsettled, fed for hours(mums words) Mum  wonders if its the =
goat Milk  or the treatment from the oestopath or could it have been a =
growth spurt.  I expect i will never know.  But your thoughts on Goats =
Milk would be appreciated."

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