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Dear Friends:
Today, at the home of a mother of exclusively breastfeeding 6-week old,
she mentioned that her baby got sick and refused to eat for a day after a
dose of oral vitamins. The baby was in NICU for a few days after the cesarean
section.
I am learning that most vitamin pills give me reflux.
Faith Ploude, a wonderful LC from Miami, used to make residents drink a
bottle of baby liquid vitamins as part of rounds. Those young doctors got the
point about awful and caustic and nausea!
I am wondering if the vitamins added to human milk substitutes are a
contributing factor to reflux. I know that I never saw infant reflux (GERD) as a
nursing student and new nurse: I was licensed in 1971. Now I see many babies
with it; sometimes reflux can be a very serious medical condition for a baby.
Is it because of more birth technology? Inductions? Epidurals? High use
of human milk substitutes with more additives, as companies keep trying to
make it closer to the real thing?
What do you all think?
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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