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June,
Don't forget, it is possible to be sensitive to goat's milk, despite popular misconceptions to the contrary. The proteins are still non-human ones and the fats and sugars aren't human, and it seems unnecessary to change to it from a replacement food that was (apparently) tolerated. If it is home-modified fresh or powdered goat milk, it will be deficient in folate and in other minerals and vit B6 (pyridoxine). If it is a factory-modified product (a "formula"), I'm not sure if the current ones have folate - I'm currently looking at 20th-century ones, and am not sure what the contents are in 2003. There's a 1982 report in Clinical Pediatrics I have in front of me, of an adopted baby who suffered convulsions after being changed from a standard ABM to "a powdered goat's milk formula", which required supplementary pyridoxin and iron - which weren't given.(1) A MEDLINE search will find you other articles.
(1) Johnston GM. Powdered goat's milk" pyridoxine deficiency and status epilepticus. Clin Pediatr 1982 (aug):494-495.
If the baby is feeding "for hours", perhaps s/he is taking care of the breastmilk supply and giving it a boost. I have just come back on Lactnet and missed the early part of this strand, and so am not clear about the mother's health history and her prospects for a complete breastmilk supply. So I'll leave those issues to others.
Virginia
in Brisbane
June, in New Zealand, wrote:
"Has anyone had babies on Goat's Milk?
"My client with the hypothyroid and augmentation is now expressing 30 =
mls after each feed. ( taking blessed thistle and Fenugreek) She took =
baby to a a cranio-oestopath and it was advised to change to goats =
milk as its the closest formula to breast milk? That night baby was =
extremely unsettled, fed for hours(mums words) Mum wonders if its the =
goat Milk or the treatment from the oestopath or could it have been a =
growth spurt. I expect i will never know. But your thoughts on Goats =
Milk would be appreciated."
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