Have had a frustrating time with a mom who has breastfed before but now has a
fussy baby.  We had some difficulties with weight gain but things got much
better after the stresses of the difficult family  (kept telling her to
supplement - lots of hot air) and  hurricane, etc. blew away (just had to put
that one in!).  He still is a fussy baby for about 3 hours once a day.
Otherwise nurses every 2 - 3 hours and sleeps at night, nurses more frequently
in the daytime and cries unless carried.  He's 4 weeks old.

Mom read somewhere that this fussiness is due to yeast and took garlic pills (9,
I think), 3000 mg of Vit. C and some papaya concoction all the same day.  Baby
now very fussy with  mucousy stools with orange flecks (mom called 'cause she
feared this was blood).  I don't know enough about the side effects of the
above-mentioned natural products - but I suggested to her that whenever she
introduces something new to her diet to add one at a time, small amounts, etc.

Why do people think that foods cause allergy - but highly concentrated "natural"
products do not???

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, LLLL, IBCLC, RN
Puerto Rico
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