Nancy writes to Ann and  says:
 
<<No-one  knows exactly how much colostrum is necessary in any given infant  
to  
maintain blood glucose, but it must be VERY little.  You are too  young  to 
remember when we were taught to keep all babies NPO for 6-8  hrs, then feed  
sterile water, and only then formula or breast  milk.  The WHO document  says 
no 
healthy term infant gets  hypoglycemic from underfeeding in the first  few 
days.   
Epidemiologic studies show that blood glucose increases over  time  whether 
the 
infant is fed or not.>>


 
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And Nancy is too young to  remember when we kept babies NPO for 24 hours 
because they "weren't hungry" and  they needed to "rest their stomachs" after 
birth.  Then we started with the  sterile water and then the formula (sometimes 
half strength) and then the  breastmilk (maybe -- if moms were breastfeeding 
which was precious  few.)




Jan   Barger -- unfortunately old enough to remember this....
_Lactation  Education Consultants_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/)  
_My  blog_ (http://www.motherofbridebyjan.blogspot.com/)   
_Year of the  MC_ (http://www.marriedcouplebytorrey.blogspot.com/)  



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