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| Date: | Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:27:13 -0700 |
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Regarding the excellent posts from Pat Young and Marsha Glass ( LACTNET
Digest - 15 Jul 2005 to 16 Jul 2005 - Special issue (#2005-832)): Babies
who are born to these moms often come out 8, 10 and may 16 ounces heavier
than they otherwise would have. They diurese and seem to lose łtoo much˛
weight.
This allows doctors and nurses in the hospital and at the 3 or 14 day check
up to sell the parents more anxiety and then sell the need for supplementing
these babies with formula.
When we are assessing babies slow to return to birth weight, IV duration and
volume might be one of the most important questions to ask mom. She might
not know, unfortunately.
I canąt prove this. After 26 years of seeing it happen, I just know it.
(It took me a very long time to know it, btw.)
Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP, FABM, IBCLC (Chapter Breastfeeding Coordinator
Emeritus)
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