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Date: | Tue, 1 Oct 1996 07:47:40 EDT |
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Have had a frustrating time with a mom who has breastfed before but now has a
fussy baby. We had some difficulties with weight gain but things got much
better after the stresses of the difficult family (kept telling her to
supplement - lots of hot air) and hurricane, etc. blew away (just had to put
that one in!). He still is a fussy baby for about 3 hours once a day.
Otherwise nurses every 2 - 3 hours and sleeps at night, nurses more frequently
in the daytime and cries unless carried. He's 4 weeks old.
Mom read somewhere that this fussiness is due to yeast and took garlic pills (9,
I think), 3000 mg of Vit. C and some papaya concoction all the same day. Baby
now very fussy with mucousy stools with orange flecks (mom called 'cause she
feared this was blood). I don't know enough about the side effects of the
above-mentioned natural products - but I suggested to her that whenever she
introduces something new to her diet to add one at a time, small amounts, etc.
Why do people think that foods cause allergy - but highly concentrated "natural"
products do not???
Jeanette Panchula, BSW, LLLL, IBCLC, RN
Puerto Rico
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