I would like feedback from anyone who may know of research that has been done on mothers intuition. Some of you may remember one of my postings about a baby who died of dehydration apparently the result of gastroenteritis, an exclusively breastfed infant I might add. The morning before the baby died the mother was seen in an emergency department and she told the physician I think my baby is going to die, however she was reassured and the baby was discharged. The jury made many recommendations one of which said health care professionals should pay attention to a mothers intuition. In a recent medical journal a pediatrician was reported as saying this was not a very helpful recommendation. The mother is of course pretty upset and is writing to the journal and would like me to say something. I am more concerned with the fact that this same physician discusses the treatment of pedialyte being acceptable and then is surprised that this mothers milk dried up just prior to the baby dying. However, as a mother and a nurse I believe there is a sixth sense or mothers intuition when it comes to our children, but unfortunately if it is not measurable it is discounted by many physicians. What does our anthropoligist have to say? Susan Moxley IBCLC [log in to unmask]