Jennifer, I do agree, healthy guts need to keep on working and producing something on a at least daily basis. There is research out there that infrequent stooling is a factor in gut cancer. I do not agree that infants on breastmilk are so effcient in processing their food that therefor they don't produce feces.

"Jennifer Tow, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  Yes, there is one subscriber among us who feels that it is 
physiologically abnormal for any human being, including an infant, not 
to have regular bowel movements (this would mean--for all humans, one 
bm per meal per day--for an infant that is many!). That would, of 
course be me who is adamant on this topic. Heather makes the argument 
that since there is a consensus among the rest of you that it is fine 
for babies to have guts that do not function, then it must be so. Well, 
there is a consensus in the West among docs that AIM is just as good as 
human milk and a few docs who disagree. Perhaps the consensus among the 
majority makes them correct? There are many similar issues when it 
comes to infants--there used to be a consensus that all babies needed 
fluoride and now that they all need vit D. These beliefs often turn out 
to be ill-informed and seriously harmful. Perhaps we should at least 
let mothers know that there is disagreement on this topic. Perhaps what 
we are seeing is a reflection of the very poor gut health of so many 
mothers causing disbyosis in their babies and maybe even beginning with 
cellular migration from the gut of the mother during gestation. Maybe 
this is the reason we see less differentiation between AF and breastfed 
babies when it comes to IQ--after all brain health begins with gut 
health and the enteric nervous system is literally located in the gut.

Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA
Intuitive Parenting Network LLC


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