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>babies have lived for thousands of years on mother's milk and
>suddenly every other baby has jaundice now that we know how to measure it.
We also need to be aware of *what else* we might be doing that's new and
different (biologically speaking) besides just measuring bilirubin. Some
years back, Ros Escott wrote on lactnet of her visit to Thai hospitals that
adhere to a concept they call The Three Sucklings - early, frequent, and
proper - and about the lack of "routine" problems she saw in those
hospitals. In part, her post said,
>We saw a lot of abandoned plastic cots. I was told that despite rooming-in
>there had been a problem with jaundice. They got rid of the cots, put the
>babies in the beds, and the jaundice stopped. Thatıs frequent suckling, folks,
>not what we play around with.
Her excellent post, well worth looking up, was on Nov 6, 1995. (I don't
know if that was 11/6 *her* time or *my* time. You might want to bracket
the date if you check the archives.)
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Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com
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