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Gonneke van Veldhuizen-Staas <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:18:27 +0100
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> Though, and you hinted at
> it, I suspect in these cultures (probably without exception??) that another
> woman would take over feeding the baby.
> Surely, though they would have a 5% infertility rate - and that hasn't made
> a big impact on human population growth.
>
> Just totally unsubstantiated musings from
> Denise

This makes me muse further: what if indeed all these babies would be nursed by
other wonen (which indeed will probably be the case), then the birth-mother
would become pregnant sooner, have more babies alltogether, more babies alive
(?), so *more* chances of passing on the genes that count for lactation
insufficiency on to their offspring? Or do I miss something? Or is primairy
lactation insufficiency not inherited but merely a bad-luck variation? Just
wondering.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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