I have been following with interest the posts on hypoglycemia.  I am not medically trained, and had never heard of it until I was told my second son had a count of 27 and that he would have to be given glucose.  He was quite a large baby, over 9 lb, and I gather there is some causal relationship there.  I begged the ped. to let me try and just continue bf for a while to see if that would help.  She reluctantly agreed.  I fed him as much as possible over the next four hours, after which he was again tested and found to have a count of 40!!  The ped. was obviously surprised.  I would like to think that they would encourage mothers to try bf in subsequent cases of hypoglycemia after witnessing my experience, but I'm more of a realist than that!  After all, this is Singapore where progressive = interventive!  (My computer is telling me that "interventive" is not a word.  It is, isn't it?!!)

Kaye Daly,
LLL Leader, Singapore.