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Please doctors in the house kindly help me with some explanation on this issue. My wife just gave birth and the weight of the baby at birth was 3kg. The baby became very sick and the weight of the baby, instead of increasing is decreasing up 2.5kg. In my efforts to get some help someone told me that my wife's breast milk is bad for the baby. I have heard this before but I don't really know what could cause a mother's breast milk to be bad. If this claim is true, what could be the remedy? The mother is not sick.

Doctors, Nutritionist and pharmacist, your attention is needed please.
Cc: Lalasticlala

Maybe you should suck and see if you will also loose weight

Mood11:
Maybe you should suck and see if you will also loose weight

people like you should not be commenting on serious matters.

A mother's breast milk can't be bad for the baby.

They should take the child to the hospital for check up not nairaland

So it's the breast milk that would make your child lose 0.5kg just within a few months of his/birth?
That's a massive 17% of the child's body weight!
That's intensive care management levels!!
It's not possible for a child that is not constantly stooling and vomiting to lose that much weight.
Let me theorize what is happening; it's either the weight measured at birth or presently isn't accurate.
Get a good weighing scale or using the same scale you measured presently,measure the weight again in a week's time,then you will get a accurate assessment of the child's growth.
There is actually a breast milk issue that makes some children start throwing up the breast milk,have catarrh and body rash.Its an allergy to a component of breast milk that some babies develop.But even that can't cause a weight reduction.

seborrhic:
So it's the breast milk that would make your child lose 0.5kg just within a few months of his/birth?
That's a massive 17% of the child's body weight!
That's intensive care management levels!!
It's not possible for a child that is not constantly stooling and vomiting to lose that much weight.
Let me theorize what is happening; it's either the weight measured at birth or presently isn't accurate.
Get a good weighing scale or using the same scale you measured presently,measure the weight again in a week's time,then you will get a accurate assessment of the child's growth.
There is actually a breast milk issue that makes some children start throwing up the breast milk,have catarrh and body rash.Its an allergy to a component of breast milk that some babies develop.But even that can't cause a weight reduction.

thank you

Please see a doctor