I would not so readily dismiss food allergies with this babe, either.
But, IMO, it is often essential to heal; the mother's gut to
successfully treat food allergies in babies. Eliminating foods is
only a small part of the bigger picture and only addresses the
symptom, especially where multiple food allergies are involved. The
other significant approach to treatment, however, is cranio-sacral
therapy. I very often see reflux in babies who have experienced birth
trauma, primarily via a medicalized birth. These kids often have
rigid diaphragms and cannot swallow (or breathe) properly.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA
>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:34:32 +0800
> From: Joy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: baby who fusses
>
> Jessica Billowitz wrote:
>> Now, the past week, baby has been often miserable at breast. She
>> begins to eat, then fusses, pulls, turns, and eventually unlatches
>> and then refuses to go back on. The feed that I observed, in this
>> time she had eaten 22 cc, and that was it. After that, the mom
>> pumped and she took another 60cc happily from the bottle. Sometimes
>> a feed will go better, but it is totally random, and most feeds are
>> miserable. It does not seem allergy related because she takes the
>> milk by bottle with no problem.
>
> Jessica, I would not be too quick to dismiss allergy issues - baby
> still has reflux, no?
>
> I always remember a lecture I attended some years ago by a doctor who
> works in a children's hearing centre, treating many children with
> otitis media. She showed a video of a baby refusing to breastfeed,
> and it looked all too familiar to me as a breastfeeding counsellor.
> She explained that these babies have allergy issues and have
> Eustachian tube irritation - like a precursor to otitis media, and
> that it hurts them to lie down and feed in the breastfeeding
> position. When the mother in the video gave the baby a bottle of her
> milk, the baby took it fine - but was being held more upright for
> bottle-feeding. The doctor pointed this out as the difference. Also,
> the baby started to associate pain with breastfeeding so would not
> even try.
>
> She mentioned that some doctors can do a tympanogram on a baby -
> non-invasive test of their ears - to detect this irritation, but I
> understand that it is not a commonly used test at a GP surgery in
> Australia.
>
> Other options for this sort of problem combination (ie including the
> reflux) would be to investigate structural issues arising from the
> birth or before, ie chiropractic or osteopathy. I usually ask how the
> baby was born, whether there was any pulling by the head, etc to get
> an idea of the likely risk of this sort of cause.
> --
> ******************************************************************
> Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
> Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor, Nutrition student
> Perth, Western Australia. mailto:[log in to unmask]
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