Ok, I admit I'm watching a little too much tv now that I'm 37 weeks pregnant
and starting to slow down. But did anyone catch the Donahue show on severely
immune comprimised babies? I think the acronym is SCIDS. It's a genetic
disorder affecting only boys where they have severe immunne compromise. It's
what the boy in the bubble had. Anyway, now they think they can fix it with
intrauterine bone marrow transplants. They had on a couple whose 7 month old
son had the first intrauterine bone marrow transplant in this country and
now appears to be fine. They showed home video of her and the baby when he
was about a month and she was BOTTLE FEEDING THE BABY!! What is going on?
This kid is severely immune compromised! Where are the docs to tell her she
has to bf this kid?

On a happier note there was a great pbs show on lambs and how they nurse. They
have to nurse within 1/2 hour of birth or they don't survive. They showed a
lamb who was put with a mother whose own offspring had died. They said it had
to wear the coat of the dead lamb for 3 days so it would smell right and the
mother lamb would accept it. After 3 days its stools would smell like her
breastmilk and she would accept it without the other lamb's coat. I think all
this is fascinating, but why aren't we seeing shows about the importance of
bf for human babies on pbs? I have to get away from my tv . . .

Blessings,
Julie Brill

PS Still waiting to hear if anyone knows why cholesterol levels are elevated
during pregnancy/breastfeeding.