In a message dated 96-05-08 00:09:07 EDT, you write:

>Date:    Tue, 7 May 1996 22:13:38 -0400
>From:    "Janaki Costello, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Low weight gain, heart problems
>
>Dear Lactnetters,
>
>A mom from one of my childbirth classes had a wonderful homebirth on March
>11, 1996.  Baby girl weighed 7'4# at birth.  At four weeks she weighed 8'7#
.
> She was and still is totally breastfed.
>
>The baby has been diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot which according to my
>medical dictionary is an anomaly of the heart consisting of pulmonary
>stenosis,interventricular septal defect, dextroposed aorta that receives
>blood from both ventricles, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle.    Now,
>at 8 weeks she weighs only 8'9 and1/2 #.

I have been following a baby with a heart defect and s