Fascinating stuff from Pamela in Zimbabwe - Kate, can you ask her if
the following stat can be clarified?

>
>  >
>>  My personal experience leads me to believe that only
>>  about one in a thousand
>>  mothers are physically unable to produce any
>>  breastmilk, so that neither
>>  breastfeeding, nor breastmilk-feeding can take
>>  place.  Of the three mothers
>>  (out of 2500 that I have worked with in the last 10
>>  years) who experienced
>>  no milk production at all from birth two were
>  > African, one was European


Does this mean (as I think it does)  1 in  1000 of mothers who
*already have problems bf* (the ones Pamela says she sees)  or 1 in
1000 of all babies?

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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