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Dee Kassing BS MLS IBCLC <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:49:41 EST
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Hello, Janette.
    You ask for research about alternating sides.   I don't have references, 
but you should be able to find them under amblyopia  ("lazy eye"). Years ago, 
there was research that showed that lazy eye occurred  primarily in bottle-fed 
babies.  The thinking was that only the baby's eye  that is farthest from the 
mom's/caregiver's body had the chance to practice  focusing well because the 
eye that was next to the adult's body was too close to  allow focusing.  Lazy 
eye very rarely occurs in breastfed babies, most  likely because they usually 
feed from both breasts (whether at the same feeding  or at alternating 
feedings throughout the day) so both eyes get equal  opportunity to be the "outside" 
eye which can focus.
    I always wondered if the few breastfed babies who  did develop this 
condition were: a twin who always nursed from his "assigned"  breast; a baby who 
preferred one breast to the point where mom gave up trying to  get him to take 
the other one; a mother who had only one breast that worked well  (cancer, lack 
of ductal development, etc.).
    Dee  

Dee Kassing,  BS, MLS, IBCLC, RLC 
Collinsville IL, in central  USA


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