I'm interested in this also from a viewpoint of considering if a newborn has received anti-biotics via the mother's milk, would it still be 'exclusive' breastfeeding? (Or, indeed, received anti-biotics in their own right?) I ask, as after I took anti-biotics at day 3, my son developed thrush through his tract and out his bottom, and we'd 6 weeks of hell, including the skin around his anus and scrotum disintegrating into an open wound. I'd always felt that if I'd know about pro-biotics, we could have saved this horror by giving him some until my anti-biotics were done with, and have passed this advice onto others. Now, I feel I must clarify exactly what I'm saying... if that makes sense? For my milk surely had far less, to no, pro-biotics due to the presence of the anti-biotics? Isn't that the point of supplementing with them during anti-biotic use? This is a general question, bouncing off Lynn's, not suggesting Lynn is the 'answer-holder'! :-) But this is to Lynn: is it easy to culture your own, and if so, how? Morgan Gallagher Lynn wrote: > My personal opinion is that once a baby has a shredded gut, they > aren't really exclusively breastfed, because of all the intact foreign > proteins that have made it from mom's gut to baby's, and in that case > I still don't hesitate to recommend probiotics to stop the downward > spiral. And I culture my family's own kimchi/salsa/kefir to avoid the > GMOs in commercial probiotics. > > Lynn in MO *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]