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The Milk of Life

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What Is Diarrhoea?

Babies who were spoon fed or fed these alternative foods did die at higher rates than breast fed children. For the first few months of a baby's life, its gut isn't actually able to digest any carbohydrates except for lactos. And then the substitute milk was' necessarily an nor was the bottle it was served in. These very easily got contaminated with bacteria, and they contributed to the diarrhea. But on the other hand, if you were a desperate parent who had no other way to feed your baby, you did what you could.

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