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Kermaline Cotterman <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:57:42 -0500
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Pam writes:
<The best examples I have encountered that have helped me form my
personal 
philosophy on this are some adoptive moms I have worked with over the 
years.  Some of them never saw a drop of milk, but "nursed" their babies 
for over a year.  In talking with them about their experiences, I did not

pick up on any differences in their perception of their nursing
experience 
vs. mothers who are able to exclusively breastfeed (providing both full 
nutrition/emotional bonding).  Is this something that those of you who 
either nursed adopted babies, or who have more extensive experience than
me 
also see?>

I'm also wondering if any prolactin and/or oxytocin level studies have
ever been done on adoptive moms who nurse and provide varying amounts of
milk from none on up to significant amounts.

If hugging raises the oxytocin level in both the hugger and huggee, as I
think I read recently in some popular publication, then how much more
nurturing hormone surges must abound in the system of the nursing,
adoptive mother at least, than if she were strictly feeding by bottle. 

And in some countries, Australia for one, I thought, isn't "nursing" a
term that means "caring for any of the needs of the baby" So that fathers
and grandpas etc. who help can even be said to "nurse" the baby?

Just musing. Karleen?

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, OH USA

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