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Jack notes:
<< I think it is quite possible for a baby to get lots of fluid, and produce
lots of urine, but not get enough milk. A baby who is getting mostly
foremilk could easily have lots of stools as well, since he would have rapid
transit of food through his gut. A baby like this would probably maintain
his weight, but could conceivably not gain. >>
One of the reasons you can't use urine as a measure of adequate intake is just
this -- actually, if a baby could survive, you could feed them sterile water
and they would have an adequate urinary output. It's interesting to postulate
that rapid transit of foremilk through the gut could produce a lot of stools.
however, I would think they'd mostly be green explosive (as in
foremilk/hindmilk imbalance) rather than yellow-seedy.
This may be one of those things that God uses to teach me that I don't know
everything, and to make sure I don't get uppity.
Actually, when it comes to breastfeeding, I'm not sure "uppity" is ever in the
books. There's too much to learn -- and to wonder at the miracle of it
all....
Jan B.
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