In a message dated 12/11/2003 11:19:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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She then says that the baby would probably get
(die?) of cholera--can't remember what else--she gave the percentage of how
likely that would be---high.   She then said that the chance of mom passing
the
HIV thru her milk was a 3% benefit!   Who was working on this one?!

Aloha,
Gloria Thai
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i'm glad to see someone else saw the glass being half-full side of it. b/c
looking from the layman's POV, it seemed to me that it was a situation where
'those poor poor ppl in that place can't even use the great formula we can take
for granted here!' after all, our hero dr. carter said verbatim, 'it's great
stuff' and the (generous, humanitarian implied here) formula companies send it
it over for free. and when the nurse said, '8 feedings a day for 6 mos?!' his
reply was 'it's possible' and her immediate retort was, 'but not practical!'.
so a priveleged american would be left thinking if this mom would only make a
little extra effort, she could give her baby superior (and safer) formula. and
as for the risk level of transmission via breastmilk, that is going to fly
right over the avg. mom's head. i think that might have been an attempt to
appease more knowledgeable viewers...but it doesn't mean diddly to a mom who already
thinks formula is the way to go.
sorry to be such a pessimist, but after the scare tactics they used about
vaxing and seeing who sponsored that episode, i think that show sold out a long
time ago. plus, do you r/m how they depicted dr.s greene and corday w/ their
new breastfed baby? baby was up all night needing to nurse, parents exhausted
and frazzled, marriage fraying...every poop was a sloppy blowout that soaked the
cradle and when the dad asked if this was normal, the mom informed him acidly
those were normal breastfed poops. dr. corday leaked during surgery and dr.
romano ordered to leave b/c breastmilk is not sterile and she'd had patients
die recently from some unknown complication and it was suspected she might be
carrying some hidden pathogen/microbe/virus kind of thing. so once again we saw
breastmilk as a potential carrier of disease.
~jacqui gruttadauria, who would love to know who sponsored last night's
episode to see for sure if the glass is half empty or half full.

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