Dear Friends:
    There are health practitioners that are ignorant of  some common newborn
manifestations. How many of us on LACTNET have encountered  healthcare
professionals diagnosing normal breastfed stool as 'diarrhea'? (Goes  to show you
that some folks don't know their s**t!)
    Many are also ignorant of the normal breastbuds  that babies often
develop in the first week of life, as the maternal hormones  clear. I knew a mother
whose baby was given an MRI for this, as the physician  thought the bilateral
symmetrical breast lumps were symptoms of some  tumor!
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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