My sister was lactose intolerant but that only manifested when my mom tried switching to formula at 10 months. My sister was gasy, had diarrhea, spent the whole night crying but seemed fine during the day. Doctor just told my mom she needs some time to adapt. After weeks of sleepless nights, just holding my crying sister all night, she went to a different doctor. She was an elderly woman, old school, and immediately diagnosed her properly. At that point my sister has lost quite some weight and all the milk messed up her intestinal villi, so even after my mom switched to soy milk my sister couldn't really digest anything for another week or two, so basically lost some more weight and kept crying. One of the worst episodes of raising kids she says.
Re:How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
by iforgotpassword on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:56PM
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Huh, I never knew you could be lactose intolerant to your mother's milk.
20 million times this.
I had one child who breastfed more than a year. He has health issues and that did him a lot of good.
My other child breastfed full-time only ten days, then once a day until he was six weeks old for the immune support it provides. He is lactose intolerant and every few weeks I temporarily put him on a bean based formula, IIRC, to clear up his diarrhea.
Doctors were zero help with this issue. I just figured out what worked on my own and only later realized he was lactose intolerant.
My sister successfully breastfed in part because of my pragmatic "do what works for the baby and ignore everything else" approach.
I successfully resolved my own issue with a blocked milk duct because of a passage in a Heinlein book. Showing the nurse my nipple and explaining how painful it was accomplished absolutely nothing while making me feel humiliated.