Answer: There is no way a parent can realize instantly if the baby is served cow milk.
In some cases, the baby may be a bit blotted but that is very rare. Baby can also be fuzzy and show symptoms such as small micro-bleeds in the digestive tracts of infants which will manifest with discoloration of their poop.
Your baby could also have fever and diarrhea. This is because babies can’t digest cow milk very easily as it can tax their immature kidneys.
Traditionally, and as mentioned by a member, smelly poop has been associated intake of cow milk by babies less than a year.
It is very important to educate and inform your baby’s care giver why cow milk is not good for them before 12 months. Some pointers you can use to relay this information include:
- Risk of intestinal bleeding
- Too many proteins and minerals for your baby’s kidneys to handle
- Doesn’t have the right amount of nutrients your baby needs i.e low in iron, vitamin E and essential fatty acids, and it doesn’t have the ideal proportions of proteins and fats found in breast milk or formula.
Once your baby’s care giver is knowledgeable of this, you can also inform them of what other dairy products to give i.e yoghurt or cheese which can introduced after 6 months.
Our advice is to have mothers keenly monitor the baby’s intake and pump enough milk, package and store for use while they are away. Or stock up and ensure enough formula is available.
Otherwise, they won’t know if anything else was offered.