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Hello everyone,
I've received a rather unusual question from Prof George Kent of the
Uni of Hawaii (specialty: human right to food) who is in
correspondence with Save the Children USA. He is advocating with
this organization for exclusive breastfeeding of newborns in Malawi,
which ties in with the theme of this year's World Breastfeeding
Week. It seems that Save the Children have recently motivated 20 000
American women to knit little caps for Malawian newborns. I'm struck
by the generosity and goodwill that this initiative seems to have
generated. But George is asking for research showing that caps help
to save newborn lives. Save the Children have directed him to the
Lancet series on neonatal mortality, but he can't find anything
specific within those papers which shows that caps specifically
benefit newborns. I seem to recall seeing footage in many videos of
pre-term babies in the US, in little isolettes, naked except for
diapers and caps. But in the neonatal units in Zimbabwean hospitals
the use of caps was unknown. Can anyone let me have any journal
references which support this practice?
Meanwhile, I've conveyed to George the rationale of keeping mother
and baby together skin-to-skin to prevent newborn hypothermia, and of
course to facilitate early exclusive breastfeeding. But we'd still
like to know about the caps!
Thanks for any leads.
Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England
Co-coordinator WABA TF on Breastfeeding and HIV
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