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Doris Fok
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>   1. cholesterol
>   2. LACTNET Digest - 18 Mar 2004 to 19 Mar 2004 -
> Special issue (#2004-428)
>   3. wrong milk
>   4. Wrong Milk
>   5. yeast infection
>   6. Hospital Policies for Herbal Galactogogues
> (Fenugreek)
>   7. Doris Fok Singapore.
>   8. no $ for Diflucan
>   9. breast refusal /unusual milk flow
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> Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:43:16 -0500
> From:    ifab <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cholesterol
>
> >1. Is there any research on babies' and young
> children's cholesterol
> >levels? It's not something we usually test young
> kids for, so how do we
> >even know what normal is for them?
>
> Hi Naomi!
> It seems there has been recent testing of
> cholesterol in kids due to the
> increase
> in obesity rates.  I'm just not sure that we really
> do understand what
> normal is or even
> if the research that has been done shows bf kids vs
> bottle fed.  I
> figured I'm venturing into unknown territory but
> thought I'd ask here
> anyway...just in case someone might be able to help.
>
> Ilene Fabisch, IBCLC, LLLL, WIC BF Co
> Listmom wicbfnet and MLCANET
> Brockton, MA
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> Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:46:24 -0800
> From:    Arly Helm <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: LACTNET Digest - 18 Mar 2004 to 19 Mar
> 2004 - Special issue (#2004-428)
>
> >> How about starting with making "formula" a
> prescription item (as donor
> >> breast milk is) instead of available at every
> supermarket in town?
> >>
> >> Naomi
> >
> >
> > Eeeek, no....:)
> >
> > Medicalisation of infant feeding is how we got
> into this whole mess
> > in the first place!!
> >
> > Let women choose, and let bf advocates work on the
> culture to change
> > it!
> >
> > Heather Welford Neil
>
> Government already has controls over the all the
> food and drugs sold in
> the marketplace--food safety laws are the best
> example, and do work to
> protect us.  This is an example of increasing the
> protections already
> in place in order to protect the consumer.  In the
> UK, in the US, in
> all countries there is some type of protection with
> regard to
> corporations marketing drugs and foods to consumers.
>  Medicalization of
> birth and breastfeeding is a different issue than
> exerting controls
> over a powerful, manipulative industry.  Consumer
> protection, as a
> whole, has been successful in most areas and
> certainly the principles
> should apply to this particularly vulnerable group
> of consumers.
>
> Arly
>
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> Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:48:58 EST
> From:    [log in to unmask]
> Subject: wrong milk
>
> Heather wrote:
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> think it's not so much fear of infection that makes
> mothers
> distressed if their preterm or sick baby has the
> wrong milk, or their
> milk gets given to another baby - though this may be
> how they
> rationalise their upset.
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> I chatted w/ a mom yesterday whose next baby (third)
> is being carried by a
> "gestational carrier" (first time I'd heard that
> term) because she had two very
> difficult pregnancies, and had left over embryos, so
> chose to have the baby
> carried by someone else.  Baby is due this summer
> and she was talking to me
> about relactation (having pumped & bottlefed each of
> her others for several
> months).  We talked about it a bit, and then I
> suggested that the "gestational
> carrier" might be willing to pump and donate milk
> for a few days or a week or so
> depending on how mom's milk supply is at the time
> the baby is born.  She was
> APPALLED that I would even mildly suggest such an
> awful thing!  I was a bit taken
> aback that she could have the woman carry the baby,
> but not provide
> breastmilk for it.
>
> Interesting.  I dropped the idea post haste.  I wish
> she had been amenable
> enough for me to explore with her why the idea was
> so
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Doris Fok -- Nurturing Families since 1984


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