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From: "Lisa Kopecky" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:44 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] iron levels


I had a similar situation with my second child, exclusively breastfed
and who was eating solids being iron deficient @ 9 mo.  I attempted to
donate blood to see if my iron levels were adequate (cheaper than a lab
visit) and they were not.  I increased iron in my diet (through food)
and in a month myself and baby had adequate levels.

Lisa Kopecky MS, RD, LMNT

**Thank you, Lisa. So that would support my suggestion that there is only 
use in increasing iron intake by the mother to increase milk levels, *when 
she is deficient*.
A baby with deficient levels will not get milk with higher levels when the 
mom is okay anyway. So in fact, it is not the milk that is the problem, but 
the deficient mother.
I think it will 'please' Jennifer to see again that diet is certainly not 
irrelevant, even if we say that in general, a baby will thrive on his mom's 
milk, even in less fortunate circumstances.

Kindly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands

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