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Dear Friends:
The NICU at one hospital where I am happy to be LC is not very
knowledgeable about human milk and breastfeeding. Babies are fed on schedule, and must
be able to take all feeds by bottle before discharge. One of the
neonatologists there said out loud at a staff meeting that human milk is insufficient
nutritionally for the first few days, even for healthy term babies.
Our lactation brigade is working hard, as you all may imagine.
However the staff has posed a few interesting questions that I am asking
for help with understanding.
One: about all the research about bf and human milk being good for
premies. Staff here say that research does not apply to sick premies, but only to
well ones. Is that true?
Second: premies are supplemented with human milk substitutes because
they have to have a volume to prevent side effects from some of the antibiotics,
like gentamycin. Is this true?
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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