Safe Passage Birth Services <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Dr. Kathryn Dewey <...> the iron levels in breastmilk
(which, she explained, are very very low even if they are
well-utilized)<...>


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Dear, friends, 
 
 If we're talking physiological variables, how do we interpret this ''very, very low''? Very low as compared to what? Should it not be wise to presume that if allehuman milk has a certain percentage or promilage of iron this will be the physiologic norm and exactly what a human infant will need?

Warmly, 

Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands


Met vriendelijke groet, 

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC 
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