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>In a message dated 3/16/2006 12:07:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>[log in to unmask] writes:
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>Our hospital  has recently tested the breastmilk of 2 babies who were=20
>admitted with  high sodium levels-dehydrated.  Both were newborns-not=20
>nursing  well, moms milk not really in well(duh...).  I found out about  th=
>is=20
>after the fact and asked how the milk was collected-no one  seemed to know=
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>I was just wondering what they hoped to learn by testing the milk of  mothers
>whose babies aren't feeding normally, or whose own milk hasn't  really come
>in properly. It's like testing the nutritional content of the food  on a
>toddler's plate, when they don't eat it.


My feelings exactly, Judy.....it makes no sense to test it in any way at all!

Are they really wondering if it's something in the milk that's making 
the babies dehydrated???

Sheesh.


Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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