Hi Netters,

I have decided to read backwards my posts.  Maybe next year I will get to my
mid June posts.  (Thank-you Kathy Auerbach for forgetting to put me no mail
while I was in Africa)  Dido Jonathan in regards to the petroleum/ vaseline
issue.  I at one time had to research into nipple/breast creams.  Found that
petroleum could be harmful to tissue if used over long period of time.
 Vaseline does not allow any air to get to the tissues for healing purposes.
 I remember working in the nursery and was always told never to use on diaper
rashes because if there is a yeast infection, it only gets worse.  There
needs to be an exchange of air.  That is why Medela uses USP modified
lanolin- it does allow air exchange.
Colostrum- calories from 1-5 days is 58 per 100ml (mature milk >30 days is
70) and that is cited from "Lactation- Physiology, Nutrition, and BF" by
Neifert. p. 203.  We have to remember that colostrum is very high in protein
(2-3times more than mature) and therefore assists with increasing the suger
and maintaining it at a higher level.  That is why the diabetic is encouraged
to eat protein (spoon of peanut butter, etc.) along with the sugar because it
will keep the level up and not just sky rise it and then come right back
down.

See you all at ILCA!!!!!!!!

Pat Bull, RN, IBCLC
The Breastfeeding Connection/Medela
Naperville, IL (hot today-90)