Re: Urgent - please help : Re: Re: Diarrhea due to bad dairy ... home remedies ?

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Please don't take a diagnosis here as your medical advice! If you

are worried, take the child to a medical professional.

On Mar 16, 2008, at 3:41 PM, shake kvc wrote:

> Hi,

>

> my wife is getting better now (knock on wood - no

> vomitings or diarrhea) but her milk supply is still

> not up and she's still weak. But it's our dd that we

> are worried about. She is not able to keep any solids

> or other foods down and she as intermittent diarrhea.

> She's not dehydrated but has very low energy levels.

>

> She's become lethargic and is mostly preferring to

> lean on our shoulders when we pick her up.

>

> Is there anything we can do or feed her or my wife to

> trigger things to jumpstart ? We are very, very

> worried about our dear dd.

>

> Please advice.

>

> Thanks in advance,

> shekar.

>

> --- De Bell-Frantz <deshabell@...> wrote:

>

> > Don't worry about her milk supply right now. If she

> > breastfed

> > exclusively with no dummies/pacifiers or bottles

> > (pumped or formula) for

> > the first 6 weeks - 2 months of the baby's life, her

> > supply will rebound.

> > Most likely the dip in supply is only a hydration

> > issue. Breastfeeding

> > is demand and supply, not supply and demand.

> > Letting the infant suckle

> > on a seemingly empty breast will result in more milk

> > later. Any

> > supplemental formula feedings always result in less

> > milk later.

> >

> > I like to keep homeopathic Arsenicum Album in the

> > house for diarheaa, and

> > apples and applesauce for the pectin.

> >

> > Steel-cut oats (soaked, etc.) can help boost supply

> > more than quinoa, but

> > liver works better than either and nutritional yeast

> > would help, too.

> > However, those don't sound good for a touchy,

> > healing gut. I can't eat

> > oatmeal more than three days a week, or I end up

> > with too much milk.

> >

> > Ann Marie, there are many things that effect milk

> > supply, and can

> > increase it. Usually the deficiency is cultural

> > rather than physical-

> > the mother has been taught inadequate breastfeeding

> > technique, or used

> > pacifiers. Most people blame their physiology when

> > really it's their

> > culture. What infusion, tincture or nutritional

> > boost works to increase

> > supply depends on what caused the insufficiency.

> > Fenugreek and fennel

> > are both estrogenic. Hypothyroid does not always

> > impact supply- I had

> > nodes on my thyroid and still made enough milk. The

> > iodine skin patch

> > test is fallible, though the need for more iodine in

> > our diets I agree

> > with wholeheartedly. C-sections impact supply,

> > too, as they do not jump

> > start the oxytocin cycle like unmedicated vaginal

> > birth.

> >

> > Perhaps I am confused about your breastfeeding

> > expertise; I thought you

> > weaned your baby to formula at a few months.

> >

> > Desh

> >

>

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I agree -- take her to the doctor. And feed her chicken or beef broth

to keep her strength up.

On Mar 16, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Val wrote:

> Please don't take a diagnosis here as your medical advice! If you

> are worried, take the child to a medical professional.

>