In a message dated 10/14/98 4:47:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Babies do not become dehydrated while breastfeeding.  They become dehydrated
>  if they are *not* breastfeeding (only *seeming* to be breastfeeding).  And
>  that happens because the mothers are getting poor advice and poor help and
>  poor followup.

Sure, but that's too fine a point for a popular television drama sponsored by
pharmaceutical companies. Clearly when a baby starves to death, the primary
issue isn't breastfeeding itself. However, ever since the 1994 WSJ piece on
dehydrated breastfed babies and their poor deluded mothers, the idea that
breastfeeding is somehow risky has been bandied about quite a lot.


>
>  What is this Chicago Hope anyway (from one who has no tv set)?

I have never seen it either but I know that it is a highly rated CBS drama
revolving around doctors in a hospital.

Katie Allison Granju
Knoxville, TN


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>  Jack Newman, MD,