I could be wrong in this... But the baby's just 5 months old and
the woman just went ahead and fed the baby goat milk without a
professional consultation ?
Maybe she deserved the razzing she got from her husband. Even
though the timing may be inappropriate.
Using goat's milk before 6 months
or regular use between 6 and 12 months is not recommended. Goat's
milk is no more appropriate to give baby than cow's milk. If you
need to supplement and breastmilk is not available, formulas are a
more nutritionally complete product.
Goat's milk is high in sodium
(like cow's milk) and is very high in chloride and potassium, which
makes the renal solute load too high for babies. This can cause
gastrointestinal bleeding and can result in anemia and poor growth
(these problems are usually undetected until months later). Goat
milk is also deficient in folic acid, which can lead to
megaloblastic anemia. Also, infants who are allergic to cow's milk
protein are often allergic to goat's milk too.
While it's true that whole goats
milk (and whole cow's milk) was commonly used prior to the advent
of infant formulas it is also true that the infant mortality and
morbidity rate during the times of such substitutions was very
high.
Ferret, I share the same view with you on this matter.
Before a couple becomes parents, FOR GOODNESS' SAKES, READ
and find out stuff about how to be parents, what to do when
pregnant, what to do when the baby arrives, etc!!! And when
in doubt, when something's not wrong, seek the doctor for
treatment!!!
I'm sorry, but I get super pissed at idiotic parents
inadvertently harming their poor babies due to sheer stupidity and
ignorance. It all reminds me of this clueless couple I wanted
to strangle when I was doing my student nurse attachment in KK
Hospital. Their poor baby girl had been running a high fever
for ONE ENTIRE WEEK before the parents FINALLY decided to bring her
in to A&E and by then, it was too late - the baby girl's fever
had damaged her brain so much that she will forever be mentally
retarded. When I was alone with the baby, caring for her, I
cried, watching her eyes being unfocused, with the left eye going
one way, the right eye going the other, and she was crying weakly
and her body was jerking involuntarily. I think we should
have charged the couple for abuse! 
Babies are totally helpless, and extremely fragile. WHY is
it that we need to sit through stringent tests to get a blardy
driving licence, but we do not do any such regulation before
couples become parents?!! If one doesn't bother enough to
read up about taking care of babies, etc before one becomes a mom
or a dad, then perhaps, one shouldn't even bother becoming
one! It's a life we're talking about, a life that can be
forever affected by the parents' stupidity.
We're talking about Singapore, where bringing the baby to the GP
isn't even going to break the bank. So what in the world was
the woman's problem? 
Sorry, but
she deserved to be given a huge scolding by her husband for
endangering their baby's life.
