Some years ago I worked with a family in which the mother was white and the father Chinese. Their first child was bottlefed and suffered from multiple allergies, so when the mother became pregnant again she determined to breastfeed.

Their second child was exclusively nursed for about five months. The mother was anxious to get him sleeping though the night and thought that introducing cereal would help. She started giving him rice cereal before bed, and was surprised (haha!) to find that he woke more frequently than ever.

She was advised (not by me!) that he was waking because he was starving hungry, and that if she only introduced MORE solids all would be well. So she did just that....and this previously calm baby became irritable and fretful and broke out in rashes :(

I suggested that she cut out all the solids and just nurse him for a couple of weeks. She was sceptical - surely he would starve? - but of course he was fine, more than fine, since his rashes healed and he calmed down considerably. We talked a LOT about how some babies are ready for solids before others, how some babies are more susceptible to allergies etc.

However. the mother was anxious to get him back to what she considered to be normal,  i.e. eating solids, so once again she started him on what is generally considered to be one of the foods least likely to be a problem, rice. And guess what? BINGO! baby started to fret again!

The mother wa shocked. How could her baby be sensitive to RICE? For goodness sakes, the family ate rice at least once a day, and his father was Chinese! So at my suggestion, she asked her husband to talk to HIS mother about his own babyhood. Yes, he was also sensitive to rice at an early age, but later outgrew it.

Moral of this (true) story:
Many things may be unlikely, but very few things are impossible :)

Norma Ritter IBCLC
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