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

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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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