In a message dated 12/1/00 10:24:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> I wish there was a quick fix, too, and being a bossy woman, I want to go
> right in there and shake my finger under people's noses and tell them to
> shape up.  But no one has ever thanked me for telling them they were idiots.
> What I have learned through sometimes painful experience is that I get a
> more positive reception for my information if I take the time to teach a
> better way of doing things.
>
 You made me laugh with this one--I think most of us want to tell the
"breastfeeding under-educated" to shape up. Sometimes it is very challenging
to come up with ways to educate some of them. One pediatrician (she & her
partner regularly tell moms to supplement with AIM until the milk comes in)
recently told me that they see so many babies come back to their office
needing treatment for jaundice. This is why they need to supplement--they
don't get enough breast milk in the 1st couple of days. I did mention that if
babies were encouraged to breastfeed frequently,  without interference, that
they would get plenty of colostrum & mothers' milk would come in sooner. I
should have asked her why so many of their babies need treatment for jaundice
when the other peds don't seem to have such a big problem.

Laura Hart
Winter Park, FL

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