On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:30:31 -0500, Wilkinson, Carrie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Regarding length of feed for breastffeding babies. I remember reading
> "somewhere" we "hospitals" used to not feed babies at all for the first
> 24 hours, nothing at all. I couldn't remember where I had read that, but
> had often quoted that it is important that babies go to breast
> frequently, small volumes go in, and so on.  Then I found my baby book
> from 1962.  My "first feeding" was at 24 hours of age, because that was
> the hospital routine, and by their routine it was canned P_ _    milk,
> water and karo corn syrup.

My parents *laugh* at how angry and hungry my eldest sister was when
she was 24 hours old, after she was born in 1957, as a victim of these
cruel policies.  Oddly enough, my mother "failed" at breastfeeding
her, but was also told that she had "better not" breastfeed because
her mother (my maternal grandmother) had died of some unknown cancer
or Rh factor illness or *something* when my mother was 7 mos old.
Yes, things have gotten better.   My mother has never been angry at
the doctors who told her that, but instead has been angry with me for
advocating breastfeeding for the past 10 years.   sheesh.



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Kate, http://systems.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html
  Mom to Ursula (9), Sage (7), Benno (3)

The greater man the greater courtesy. ~  Alfred Lord Tennyson

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