Jaye--That is exactly the point I have been trying to make! 
Sick mommas having sick babies. You have to heal momma and baby together--not one or the other. I think we miss the opportunity to give these babies the chance to have truly healthy lives when we go with "business as usual". 
This baby has not be inoculated with mom's flora (cesarean), she has been inoculated with hospital pathogens instead. Separation from mom makes it worse as baby isn't kissed and her pathogens explored and haven't informed the mother's own flora. More damage is done as the baby's gut is severely damaged by abx and then even more so by the pedialyte. Breastmilk is amazing stuff, but it cannot on its own fix all of that.  
Structurally, the baby has not been treated for the trauma of the cesarean. Functionally, the baby is probably in a sympathetic state, unable to properly digest food. Stress hormones are further damaging to the gut. When the gut is damaged, the inflammatory cytokines travel to the brian and cause inflammation. Behavior (what we often think is personality) is affected, even defined. 
What can be done? Get the baby off Pedialyte immediately! It is an assault to the system. What is wrong with anyone who imagines that breastmilk is not the medicine this baby needs? 
Baby should be massaged to help normalize the nervous system. Baby needs bodywork. Baby needs probiotics and probably digestive enzymes. Baby will probably have food allergies and get diagnosed with reflux and put on meds. Of course, once that poor baby is vaccinated, healing the gut will be even more challenging, if not impossible. It is an unbelievable tragedy the magnitude of which ought to be shaking us all up, bc we are irreversibly damaging our entire race out of lack of respect for the significance of our internal terrain. 


Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, France
Intuitive Parenting Network, LLC
Hi All,

 

I have a question about gut damage and a case I am working on.

 

There is a lot of talk about if baby has gut damage then so does mom and the
only way to correct this is to heal moms gut and then baby's gut will in
turn be healed.  Am I right there?

 

If this is the case, then is it not also the case that since the vast
majority of humans have damaged guts already, that our babies are being BORN
with gut damage?

 

The case I am working with is extremely rare and I'd like a bit of input on
it.

 

Baby born full term (39wks 4 days) on 6/28 via c-section (planned - mother
had prior c-sec and family history of uterine rupture).  Within the first
hour, after a good breastfeed, baby threw up 'neon' green.baby was
immediately admitted to NICU and diagnosed with NEC (but no obstructions) -
put on antibiotics and nothing by mouth.  I know how rare this is for a baby
to be born WITH NEC on board.very rare!  She is receiving oral care with
colostrum.  Mom's milk is coming in nicely with pumping.

 

Baby is progressing nicely (and is adorable!).  She was started on Pedialyte
7/9 (which I do NOT understand!  Why pedialyte?)  and after seeing how she
does on that, they will start oral feeds of breastmilk ONLY.  Baby is
expected to be in the hospital another week.  

 

What steps can I take (other than the typical breastfeeding stuffs I do
already) to assist this dyad?  Given that baby was born with NEC, is there
anything specific I need to know after she comes home, or would this just be
'business as usual'?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

Warmly,

Jaye









 

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