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In a message dated 10/5/2005 7:16:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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My question is, in your experience and expertises have you noticed
significance in babies' temperatures that are having skin-to-skin
contact via breastfeeding?
Dear Friends:
I was called down to Pediatrics to work with a baby readmitted for
hyperbilirubinemia. This baby had been discharged after birth, and was 34+ weeks
gestation. (And they sent that baby home with no daily follow-up; to a
first-time mother..........................smoke rising out of both ears!)
The mom held her baby skin to skin for about 10 minutes. The nurse from
Pediatrics, bless her, took my offer to watch my entire interaction with the
mother. (A first, although I always invite nurses in..........)
I suggested taking the baby's temperature. The axillary temperature was
98.6, even higher than in the isolette.
The evidence tells us this, and there is nothing like seeing it happen
in front of a quizzical healthcare professional!!
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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