On Sun, 7 Jul 1996 23:44:22 -0400, Alicia Dermer wrote:
>                                            However, I really was
>referring to mothers who plan to continue a fixed number of
>breastfeedings and abm feedings, and won't be increasing their nursing.
>I gather that there is some offsetting of the potential problem of elevated
>sodium if the feedings are infrequent in that that means more feedings of
>abm, but there appears to be no data on this issue.  I am also assuming
>that there are no adverse health effects of this practice, since in the
>Jones study of day care exclusion from illness, the babies who got
>"token" breastfeeding still were healthier and missed less day care days
>than their exclusively abm-fed counterparts.

They may be healthier than exclusively SIN fed babies, but how do they
compare to babies who receive EBM at daycare?  I'd be worried even if they
did as well the first few years, since IDDM and atopic disease show up much
later in life, and are mediated by SIN exposure.

Jonathan
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*           L. Jonathan Kramer, P.E.           *
*      Graduate Breastfeeding Counselor       *
*         Student Lactation Consultant         *
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