Supplementing with Goat Milk?

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I called my lactation consultant tonight because I think I'm not producing as much milk as I used it. L has been cranky a lot this week and I feel like it's because he's not getting enough milk.
She said that supplementing with formula is an option or I could try goat milk. She said it's very similar to human milk, it just lacks vitamin D, which L is already taking.
Landen has his 9 month appt on Monday and I will be talking to his pedi about this of course but I wanted to see if anyone has heard about this or has used goat milk with their children? this is the first time I've ever heard about using it! TIA!

[gingergrant]

Talk to your pedi. What advantages would goat's milk have over formula? It would be pasteurized, so no bacterial benefits like what you pass with your own milk and no immunity benefits. Formula is made to be nutritionally most like human milk and only lacks those benefits, which goats milk won't have anyway.

I would also consider getting a new lactation consultant. This sounds like really suspicious and possibly dangerous advice.

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There is a growth spurt at 6 mos and 9 mos but a lot of times it isn't noticed because of solids intake. So consider that first, try to nurse thru it.

I would do other means to increase your supply rather than just supplementing. increase water, calories, calcium/magnesium supplement if your period is returning, additional nursig/pumping, herbs etc.

But if you need to supplement I would use formula. This is a pretty young baby to be using anything except breastmilk or formula.

If baby were a LOT closer to age 1 year, like 11 or 11.5 mos old, I would consider supplementing with cow's milk or goat's milk if it's just one feeding's worth per day. Canadian recommendations are more lax than American, realizing that if baby is already taking in a lot of a few oz of cow's milk (or goat's milk)a day would be ok.

At 9 mos, well that's still pretty young, and not close enough to a year for my comfort level. Some people do, however, occassionally use goat's milk for babies since it's composition is more similar to breastmilk than cow's milk. but they may have also been using goat's milk formula, rather than cow's milk formula.

[missilini]

My DH was lactose intolerant when he was a baby and his mom gave him goat milk for the first couple years of his life. He turned out pretty all right.

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Apr 11, 2015 17:36:52 GMT -5 missilini said:

My DH was lactose intolerant when he was a baby and his mom gave him goat milk for the first couple years of his life. He turned out pretty all right.

Yeah we have to assume that your dh is at least 18 years old so that advice is outdated as lactose free formulas didn't exist. Goats milk just has lower lactose than cows milk not lactose free

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Thanks for all the advice!