Where many of us are missing is from those babies who are bottle fed from birth.
I will start a thread to see how many of us were breast fed and how many were bottle fed from day 1
They said the problem was usually first detected when going from breastfed to solids for the 1st time.
Nothing was there to describe the symptoms for those being fed contaminated formula feed from day 1.
Those I suspect mostly die straight away as failure to thrive.
Quite a number of babies are labeled this way and little is done to help them..
I know because my daughter was labeled as failure to thrive and we had to fight like mad to get any help.. Not that we actually got any effective help.
In the end I found out the problem (she seemed to have a problem similar to Glycogen storage disease. )
So I woke her up and fed her a bottle of milk laced with a tiny amount of rice starch at 11 pm every night.
This stopped the apnea monitor going off for at least 6 hours if she drank the whole bottle.
However at about 18 months she "grew out of it" and after that time she woke herself up at midnight every single night! Wanting a snack or meal.. then play.... until she was at least 6 years old!
It's a miracle she has a younger brother at all!
Before this she had never ever woke up because she was hungry, she just slept and slept going paler and whiter until she stopped breathing.. and was the colour of a piece of white paper.
The only way to bring her round was to Pinch her earlobes hard between finger and thumbnail, stroke her and call her name as she slowly slowly came around and her breathing got stronger.
It was not a good time of my life.. before I disobeyed the pediatricians orders (!!!) and got her up at 11 pm and gave her an extra bottle of milk we were getting over 6 alarms a night each one getting closer to the last.
How many hours did I spend listening to her breathing.. more than I spent asleep for certain.
It's how I got my haggaged looks!
On top of this at this time, her mother was fast developing a serious mental illness and I had to do all of this myself.
Perhaps this is why I am so hard on people I feel are not doing the best for their child?
Later I had to deal with my now ex wife who tried everything she could to stop Jennifer having an emergency operation that she desperately needed.
I had to get full custody of Jennifer before I could get her treated.
Mental illness is a strange thing.
Jennifer would not be here now if I had not won the custody battle.
