I have been given a photocopy of 8 chapters of a book on breastfeeding.
Nowhere can I find the title, author or date.  Much of the information it
contains is out of date.  There are no references provided to check some of
the rather dubious "facts".  Anyone any idea where these examples could have
come from - besides being sucked out of someone's thumb?

For example:  "Nutrients in 5ml colostrum are the same as 30ml mature milk.
This prevents overloading of baby's metabolism during the first few weeks."

"Milk secreted between feeds (foremilk) gathers in the sinuses behind the
nipple.  Fat and carbohydrate molecules are too big to pass through the milk
producing cell walls without the let-down reflex.  Therefore the foremilk is
more watery and serves to quench the baby's thirst."   Okay - maybe this was
our understanding a few years ago?

And to tell if baby is getting enough:  "According to the growth chart a
baby who weighed 2.5kg at birth should gain about 120g per week, if he
weighed 3.5 kg he should gain about 150g per week, and if he weighed 4kg he
should gain about 190g per week."  It goes on to talk about the size of the
parents needing to be taken into consideration etc. but the numbers seem to
stand out as being all important.

There's more.

Jean Ridler  RN  RM   IBCLC

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