Fascinating stuff from Pamela in Zimbabwe - Kate, can you ask her if
the following stat can be clarified?
>
> >
>> My personal experience leads me to believe that only
>> about one in a thousand
>> mothers are physically unable to produce any
>> breastmilk, so that neither
>> breastfeeding, nor breastmilk-feeding can take
>> place. Of the three mothers
>> (out of 2500 that I have worked with in the last 10
>> years) who experienced
>> no milk production at all from birth two were
> > African, one was European
Does this mean (as I think it does) 1 in 1000 of mothers who
*already have problems bf* (the ones Pamela says she sees) or 1 in
1000 of all babies?
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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