>Jill,

>You mentioned a mom of a two-month-old who had gone back to her job outside
>the home. Her babe seemed fine when he received expressed milk from a bottle.
>When he fed directly from mom (for about ten minutes), he seemed to suffer
>with gas pains.

I wonder if this mom is removing the baby from the breast to burp every few minutes, thus causing *more*
ingestion of air? I was mystified by a similar case until the mother mentioned that she babysat a bottlefed
fed baby in addition to taking care of her own child. Bottlefeeding being part of the prevailing culture in
my neck of the woods, :-( this woman assumed that one burped the baby every few minutes when breastfeeding,
just like when bottlefeeding.


Norma Ritter, IBCLC, LLLL                          "If not now, when? If not us, who?"
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Date: 11/11/95
Time: 09:53:05