I probably wouldn't have mentioned this except that it has just come up on
Lactnet anyway.  I had a distressed call from a lovely mother of a 30month
old who has had coxsackie for the last week and was and still is breast
refusing.  She is devastated feeling this may be the end of
breastfeeding.  She's a wonderful mother and has already done all the
skin-to-skin and bathing and everything else she could think of since he
began to be able to eat again.

She mentioned that her toddler said her milk was yucky, and I commented
that as she's beginning to involute the milk is probably tasting salty -
she then had an ah-ha moment and said that when the toddlers mouth blisters
were at their worst he would cry and act like her milk was stinging when
she dripped it onto his mouth.  We hypothesised that it was probably the
increasingly salty state of the milk.
The latest suggestion is to make ice-blocks out of the milk and see if
he'll start accepting the milk again like that - even perhaps adding some
sugar to the first few iceblocks.
The mother is so sad .. and the toddler even tells her not to pump.  My
heart really goes out to her.
Denise

Denise Fisher
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