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Becky Krumwiede <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:26:53 -0400
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Greetings again, Pat--

<<BTW is the test water feed still in place in hospitals?>>

Probably in very few places.  Don't think they were doing it here when I
started 6 years ago and certainly not now.

<<I have also seen 3-day-old babies dehydrated, but they all had some
liquid by mouth in hospital.>>

Now, just for the sake of discussion, at my place it's usually only the
babies who have not been latching on at all or recognized as nursing
ineffectively who start getting liquid by mouth (and almost always by cup).
 Once the problem is recognized, they're fed and followed so they don't get
into trouble.  The ones who've occasionally come back dry are ones who have
been latching on and nursing, have not had anything else by mouth, but no
one had recognized that there was no/hardly any swallowing going on.  But
if your theory holds true, maybe a little bit of swallowing is enough to
set things in motion.  Again I say hmmmmm.

<<But the usual hospital birth (in the US) is anything but normal, of
course>>

Amen.

Becky Krumwiede, RN, IBCLC, Appleton, WI
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