Newborn in our household. Mom is producing almost enough milk, but not quite. We are both unvaxxed. We needed to supplement and opted for donor milk. We are only 1.5 oz of donor milk in. Question is if the spike proteins or MRNa from COVID vax could be in the milk and if 1.5 oz of the breast milk could pass along enough of the vax ingredients to cause problems. I feel like an idiot for thinking about that after 2 bottles and not before. Running on low sleep and hoping I didn’t make a big fuck up.
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At the moment I don't have a specific source or reference to give you, but I recall reading that spike protein would be passed into breast milk post vaccination.
I have no recollection of anything saying mRNA would pass through breast milk, nor do I have any idea what kind of timeline that might be possible to occur (if it were at all possible) from the point of a vaccination event for the mother.
Given the low amount of supplementation you are doing and the short time this has been going on, I do not believe personally that you have done anything that would cause harm to your child.
Your wife's production can be increased quickly if she goes on a high fat and high calorie diet. Flax seed can be really helpful. My wife ate oatmeal +1 tspn Flax seed + cranberries + maple syrup ( the real kind) + raisins every morning, lots of avocado, peanut butter, olive oil, and healthy foods in the mix. She ended up producing enough milk that we froze a lot of it and were able to have more than enough. Ended up donating some of it to a milk bank when our child weaned off of breast milk.
And every time my wife nursed, she would pump for 10-15min afterward whether anything was produced at that time to help signal for more milk production. We were in a spot where all formulas were a total no go due to allergies. Which by the way, if you don't want to fortify with soy or dairy based formula, you can get high quality Olive oil and after calculating the calories, you can add it to breast milk as a fortifier. Works great, the pediatrician reported good health and growth, then we told him what we were doing and he agreed it was working well.
Regarding pumping breast milk, you would want to have a quality machine for that purpose. It's been quite a few years, but I believe we opted for one of the Medela pump in style backpack units available at the time. You would definitely want to research breast milk pumps if you go that route. Quality can change and effectiveness + comfort to your wife can impact whether it succeeds in its intended purpose / goal.