My baby reacted badly to breast milk WHY? Please Read…?
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Has any one experienced a baby who fell ill from breast milk? PLEASE READ?
It started around week 2, he would cry at every feed, pull back and scream! I tried to express the fore milk, attempted to offer full, semi full, half and finally near empty breast, nothing helped him, then his sleeping issues started, he would cry and cry, nothing would settle him and I mean nothing, he was worse during the day than night?
Every health professional I spoke to told me to keep BF so I did.
He became worse and even more irrittable and only gaining little weight. At week 5 he was diagnosed with reflux, he was put on medication. I then expressed milk and gave it to him in a bottle – I thought it may have been my let down, well he reacted the same way.
Week 7 he was still bad and now loosing weight, I went on a food elimination diet and further tests were conducted and in the same week he was hospitilised because he couldn’teat for 11 hours. He had a tube stuck in his nose wich lead to his belly, I expressed the milk that lead to his belly, he was still unsettled.
Poo, urine, ultra sound tests came back ok. He was realesed after 2 days of tube feeding as he was rehyrated.
shortly after he started fluro green poos, 2-3 times at each feed and still gaining little wieght.
He was hospitilaised again he was put on a behaviour monitor chart. He was released after 2 days.
Week 10 he is missrible, still not sleeping, only gaining little weight, screaming-not crying screaming! Some times it would take 2 hours just to get him to take 1/2 breast!
What was going on?
So I decided to try formula for reflux babies, hey presto green poos stopped in 3 feeds, he started to become more settled and would now sleep.
Now he is a happy baby, ok so I tried the full, near full, half, nearly empty breast feeding and that didn’t help him, I elimnated all suggested food groups. My milk supply was good and he was fine from birth to 2weeks.
I attempted to give him breast milk from a bottle again 1 week ago and from only 1 feed his symptoms started to come back. So now I wont feed him anything else but formula.
The strangest thing is no matter how he had the Breast milk (either from me or bottle) he reacted the same way?
I just wanted to know if any one had experienced this or new of what it could be?
Also I went on the elimination diet for dairy, wheat,egg,nuts,asian greens, caffine,garlic, onions, iron supplements, soy, tomatoes, capsicum, chilli and curry. Basically a very bland diet for 3 weeks.
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so what do you want to hear? congrats, you gave him formula?
What are you asking? He’s reacting to something in your diet that wasn’t eliminated (do remember elimination diets take about 2 weeks to show ANY difference). I’m not sure what your question is.
Sorry I didn’t read all that, but my nephew got sick from breast milk because he had a milk allergy. He couldn’t be breastfed he had to drink soy formula. That’s all I know, hope your baby feels better.
Oh boy, all that brought back memories of my eldest! She was a horrible baby. Like your little one was diagnosed at 4 weeks with severe reflux. I tried and tried to breastfeed her but she couldn’t attach, we tried everything. She was always unsettled. You did the right thing hun, always go with your gut instinct. We switched our eldest to reflux formula and bingo! Less irritable but still screaming at times but gaining small amounts of weight which was better than nothing. At 15 months, our daughter got bad again and refused to eat as she associated feeding/drinking with pain so she stopped. She actually had to go in for her first major op to correct her reflux. Scary times. I truly hope this doesn’t happen to your little guy. My daughter at age 2 was then diagnosed with Williams Syndrome. Your little guy doesn’t obviously have this but it does sound like you could have some sort of allergy to your breastmilk, possibly lactose, who knows but hun, if he’s doing well on the formula, stick to it! Good luck and all the very best for you and your little man xxxx
Your baby was allergic to something you ate. Please reconsider the elimination diet and like a previous commenter said, it can take about 2+ weeks to see the results from said elimination diet.
Popular foods that cause issues:
milk
chocolate
soy
tomatoes
nuts
wheat
I would revisit with a lactation consultant to help you figure out what is in your diet that is causing your baby discomfort. I would also recommend investing in some gripe water and mylicon. Considering your baby is also young, get a swaddle blanket and treat that baby as if they are in the 4th trimester. Swaddle, Shhh, Swing, and Suck. Four S’s are very important.
Also like another commenter said, it is VERY VERY rare that a child is actually allergic to their mother’s milk as it is formulated from them and USUALLY by the time that allergy is discovered, the child is fatally ill and/or dead. A newborn does not usually have a “milk allergy” as allergies take a while to develop (about 2 years). He may have had an intolerance to something she was eating.
Please reconsider the artificial food you are giving your child and try again.
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