---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Ellen Shein, 106444,1476 TO: Automatic digest processor, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] DATE: 13/01/97 21:54 RE: Copy of: caffeine and other foods To Jan Barger in response to Judy's caffeine query. In all fairness I must defend the "Docs" that you refer to who put the "fear of G-d" into bfg mothers. I have heard many colleagues, including RNS, LCs and LLL leaders alike "put the fear of eating anything" into mothers, very unnecessarily. Noone has the exact Stats regarding what makes baby cry, and we have to be very careful when dogmatically making bombastic and accusatory statements against any one particular food. It is hard enough selling our product, but by arbitrarily restricting a mothers diet, we can really put them off. According to some of the experts the percentage of maladies of the infant being directly linked to food is low. So lets keep this in proportion. Obviously in severe cases everything must be done in order to eliminate possible causes of discomfort. Ellen Shein, IBCLC, LLLI Do these postings automatically send my email address? 106444,[log in to unmask]