Dear Friends:
       Jean Liedloff, in her book "The Continuum Concept" describes the time
she spent living with hunter-gatherers in some South American country. She
commented that she never saw a baby spit up, unless it was ill. She speculates
that infants are always in arms, except at night. Makes me wonder if the
many,many, many hours infants spend in seat/swings/car seats/carriages put too much
stress on that important lower esophageal sphincter.
       The pediatric gastroenterologist who spoke at the MILC-PA conference
last October disagreed with my speculation on this point. His take on it was
that these infants are feeding very, very frequently and that keeps GERD away.
So it may be that our cultures' expectation that babies feed on hourly
schedules, as opposed to minutes, may be playing a role in development of GERD. He
pointed out that a treatment for GERD is to feed very frequently.
       warmly,
       Nikki Lee

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