Brenda Phipps wrote:
<<That "Neonatology on the Web" website which you sent is very good, and I
plan to post it, but I have a question: In paragraph 10, it states-
"breast-milk jaundice occurs in almost two-thirds of all brestfed
infants". Is that true? Seems high to me. >>

The article on jaundice and bf by Gartner and Herschel in Pediatric Clinics
of North America (48:2, 389-99) says, "In contrast to artificially fed
infants, at least two thirds of all breastfed infants have serum bilirubin
concentrations that exceed the adult normal level of 1.5 mg/dL ...during the
third week of life..."  I figure that Larry Gartner knows if anybody knows!

Chris Mulford, RN, IBCLC
Swarthmore  PA (Eastern USA)

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