Dear Sharon:

Lactose is made in the breast, so Lactaid in the mother's diet would not
help.  I received a phone call from a mother who had been advised to wean
because there was lactose in the stool and the MD wanted the baby put on soy
formula.  (She eventually took the baby for cranial-sacral work--that baby
had unbelievable cranial compression--1 ear lower and forward of the other,
etc...)  I suggested that if lactose were such a problem that she express
some HM, put some lactaid into it and feed it to the baby at the beginning of
the feed.  I figured it probably wouldn't hurt and would be less harmful than
weaning.  Maybe some of the physicians and pharmacists out there could speak
to this issue better than I.  This mother did NOT do this.   She just kept on
breastfeeding.  I HAVE NO IDEA if this would work-- just thinking on my feet
(or bahunka, actually)

Queen Idea