katherine in atl, you wrote, "have also seen situations in which mom can only
eat a couple 'rare'
foods - like tapioca and ostrich.  and really nothing else.  these
extreme situations really do say  volumes about the gut health/gut
integrity of the mother."

I have a different perspective.  I think this case or other cases show that
infants fed other substances before they ever get the chance to breastfed,
suffer permanent gut damage.  And this gut damage is not alleviated by
breastfeeding.  This reminds me of the patent I described to Lactnet a week ago where the
patent seemed to imply that infant formula specifically caused problems in
the breastfed infant.

I don't  understand why there is an assumption that the mother's gut is
damaged??  I see it as permanent damage done to an infant who was given human milk
fortifiers or infant formula rather than exclusively given human milk.   I
think we are assuming that Neocate is the cure and that the problem was the
mother's milk.  I think the situation has nothing to do with the mother's milk or
her gut health and everything to do with the amount of gut damage done by
feeding infants inappropriate substances.
Valerie W. McClain, breastfeeding advocate

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