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 [log in to unmask]