Fenugreek is not recommended for use in moms with sick babies.  It can
increase the anticoagulant effect of warfarin, exacerbate asthma, and
have a ypoglycemic effect.  In general.I always ask my moms if they or
their babies have diabetes, asthma or any bleeding disorders.
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We rarely use warfarin (if ever) for premies or newborns.  Asthma is
not diagnosed until later in life, so this diagnosis would be rare in a
baby during the first year.  As far as hypoglycemia, we would be
monitoring this so regularly in a hospital that I don't feel it would be
a problem.  I feel that the mother's milk is so valuable and important
for our sick infants that the advantages would far outweigh the
disadvantages of supplementing the mother w/ Fenugreek.  Certainly, one
should screen the baby & mother before recommending anything that may
have an effect on the health of either one, but the alternative of using
a breast milk substitute may have an even worse effect.

Ginger Carney, RD, LDN, IBCLC, RLC

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