In a message dated 12/11/2003 11:19:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: She then says that the baby would probably get (die?) of cholera--can't remember what else--she gave the percentage of how likely that would be---high. She then said that the chance of mom passing the HIV thru her milk was a 3% benefit! Who was working on this one?! Aloha, Gloria Thai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- i'm glad to see someone else saw the glass being half-full side of it. b/c looking from the layman's POV, it seemed to me that it was a situation where 'those poor poor ppl in that place can't even use the great formula we can take for granted here!' after all, our hero dr. carter said verbatim, 'it's great stuff' and the (generous, humanitarian implied here) formula companies send it it over for free. and when the nurse said, '8 feedings a day for 6 mos?!' his reply was 'it's possible' and her immediate retort was, 'but not practical!'. so a priveleged american would be left thinking if this mom would only make a little extra effort, she could give her baby superior (and safer) formula. and as for the risk level of transmission via breastmilk, that is going to fly right over the avg. mom's head. i think that might have been an attempt to appease more knowledgeable viewers...but it doesn't mean diddly to a mom who already thinks formula is the way to go. sorry to be such a pessimist, but after the scare tactics they used about vaxing and seeing who sponsored that episode, i think that show sold out a long time ago. plus, do you r/m how they depicted dr.s greene and corday w/ their new breastfed baby? baby was up all night needing to nurse, parents exhausted and frazzled, marriage fraying...every poop was a sloppy blowout that soaked the cradle and when the dad asked if this was normal, the mom informed him acidly those were normal breastfed poops. dr. corday leaked during surgery and dr. romano ordered to leave b/c breastmilk is not sterile and she'd had patients die recently from some unknown complication and it was suspected she might be carrying some hidden pathogen/microbe/virus kind of thing. so once again we saw breastmilk as a potential carrier of disease. ~jacqui gruttadauria, who would love to know who sponsored last night's episode to see for sure if the glass is half empty or half full. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html