> I remember in a psychology class being given the illustration of an
> orphanage (don't remember which country or culture--but this was about
> 100 years ago or turn of the century) where babies were all placed in
> their cribs .
>
> Mortality rate was nearly 100% as there was not much staff allocated.
> All the babies died but one in an end row crib.  This proved consistent
> over the years.

I have not read this particular study, but something that has stuck with me
over the years is a research paper that I did on the holocaust when I was in
high-school.  The Nazi's conducted experiments on babies sent to the camps,
one of which was to simply place babies in cribs with no human contact
whatsoever - the bottles were propped for feedings and the babies lived in
isolation.  These babies invariably died, even though they were receiving
ample nourishment.    This, I think, goes to the very heart of why a mother
chooses to breastfeed her newly adopted baby even though she may have no
milk and has to use an SNS - because it isn't necessarily the milk alone
that provides benefits; the nurturing received at the breast is at least as
important as the milk itself.  After all, bottle propping is still bottle
propping, whether it is formula or EBM in the bottle.

Carrie Otterson

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