On Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:29:04 -0500, Ruth Wilson wrote:
>Feb 23 WALL ST JOURNAL Anybody see this article re: 400% increase in skull
>surgeries to correct a new syndrome of skull flattening in infants
>suspected of having a RARE condition called synostosis or early congenital
>fissure closure and head flattening (posterior skull) THis astounding
>increase in major surgeries have been done in huge numbers since 1992 !!!!
>Guess what the medical researchers started to tell us to do with infants in
>1992 ?We now have to place our infants on their backs or sides propped with
>the now ESSENTIALL BABY sleep wedges at $10.00-$20.oo a pop so now babies
>are immobilized. Funny! US reports of SIDS have NOT REFLECTED a significant
>decrease in SIDS since the AAP campaign started The really ASTUTE
>neuro-surgeons are recommending head gear to place on the infants heads at
>$2,000.00 and 23 hours a day wearing for up to a year !!!!!
>WOW what a novel thought it mentions that parents have their infants either
>propped on their backs all night then placed in plastic hard baby seats all
>day!

I hope I don't offend our physians, but isn't unnecessary interventions causing
more & more interventions a recurrent theme in the problems we face?
When will we learn that our species history contains the answers to many of
our problems if we'd just learn from it!  The more "modern" we get
(i.e. anesthesizing birthing women, suctioning their babies, bottle feeding the
babies, and putting them to sleep for long periods in different rooms), the more
we create difficulties.  Then we can support the health-care system solving
the problems we've created in more artificial ways.  Sometimes I think the only
thing less effective (creating new problems every time they try to solve one) is
government.  Sorry for preaching to the choir, but the air's so thin up
here, I'm
oxygen starved!

On Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:42:02 -0500, Diane Wiessinger  wrote:
>A few weeks ago, I asked what you would do about breastfeeding if you
>were pregnant and discovered you were HIV+ (not a new infection and not
>AIDS).  I wondered what those of us who know breastfeeding *intimately* -
>would do.

Isn't there a method of killing the virus in EBM by pasteurization?  If so,
why not
feed (finger or syringe) pasteurized EBM until the test comes back?

Jonathan