In a message dated 10/5/2005 7:16:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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My question  is, in your experience and expertises have you noticed 
significance in  babies' temperatures that are having skin-to-skin 
contact via  breastfeeding?




Dear Friends:
    I was called down to Pediatrics to work with a baby  readmitted for 
hyperbilirubinemia. This baby had been discharged after birth,  and was 34+ weeks 
gestation. (And they sent that baby home with no daily  follow-up; to a 
first-time mother..........................smoke rising out of  both ears!)
    The mom held her baby skin to skin for about 10  minutes. The nurse from 
Pediatrics, bless her, took my offer to watch my entire  interaction with the 
mother. (A first, although I always invite nurses  in..........)
    I suggested taking the baby's temperature. The  axillary temperature was 
98.6, even higher than in the isolette. 
    The evidence tells us this, and there is nothing  like seeing it happen 
in front of a quizzical healthcare professional!!
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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