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