Yes, Elisheva, the health workers and the substitute could never be wrong,
could they?!  Only a mother's "deficient" body could be at fault.  Stories
like these are sad - and infuriating.  We can't help your grandmother or my
research subjects, but we can do our darndest to make a difference to the
new Mums we see.
                          Virginia
                           In sunny Brisbane, Queensland
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 4:22 PM
Subject: Bf earlier in the century


> Virginia wrote about mothers in the 1940s who couldn't let down before
their
> babies were whisked away by the clock watchers.
>
> My husband's grandmother, now 87, had in a way the opposite experience
when
> her first child was born in Boston in the 1930s.  She had "plenty of milk
but
> my milk was too thin, it wasn't rich enough" so that the baby "had colic"
and
> didn't gain weight.
>
> My theory of this now is that the mother was engorged, the baby only
allowed
> to stay at the breast long enough to take off a little of the copious
> foremilk, and the result was a nasty lack of hind milk.
>
> Leading of course to the same result -- the saving power of infant formula
:(.
>
> Elisheva Urbas, NYC
>

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