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Dear Friends:
Chele Marmet gave me permission to share her post to me with you all.
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While lecturing in Japan I was invited to visit Okayama National Hospital
which is famous for being the 1st Baby Friendly Hospital world wide. When I
walked from bedside to bedside in the postpartum unit, every baby was in bed
with its mom 24/7. Each mom charted every breastfeed, & urine & stool output.
The highest number of feeds/ 24hr I remember seeing, without going back to
my notes, was 24. They also urinated & stooled very frequently, even the 1st
24 hrs. What goes in must come out! Of course, these were all
non-medicated, non-problematic vaginal births. Primips stay in this hospital 7 to 10 days
routinely, so I was able to see that the 5 & 6 day olds were doing
beautifully. If you heard me talk about this experience, then you also heard me say
that it is our mucked up birthing practices that get babies & their mothers
off to terrible breastfeeding starts & account for our incorrect (stupid) ideas
re number of feedings & breastmilk, urine & stool output to expect / 24 hrs
in the early days. Please quote me again guys. Let's get the word out on
this & get U.S. practices changes!!!!
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warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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