> In the absence of pathology, have any STUDIES been done that
>compares the LONG TERM effects of well term infants who had blood sugar levels
>of 30-40 in the first 24 hours of life VS. same babies who had blood sugar
>levels >50 in first 24 hours of life?

I have no special expertise in this.  However, I've done a lot of think,
so I thought I'd register my opinion with y'all. ;-)  This trend bugs the
heck out of me.  Why, oh why, are we not looking at the big picture more
often?  Such as.........  are there obvious red flags like diabetic mom,
glucose IV, special stress?  Baby not acting right, or exhibiting lots of
tremors?  Is anyone asking whether the baby has been encouraged to
breastfeed, if mom has been helped with latch if baby has not breastfed,
or if baby is drugged out from delivery and maybe could use a bit of
expressed colostrum fed manually?

If there are no red flags and baby is acting normally and starting to
feed well, then we shouldn't be stressing automatically.

Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC