Hi Dawn,
  I find your post tentative and think I understand the meaning, but am not sure.
  Could you please explain ''one-feeder'' and ''multiple-feeder'' systems to me and how a decrease in spinal menigitis relates to the ''better mother'' concept?
   
  Warly greeting,
   
  Gonneke,
  IBCLC, LLLL, MOM, grandma2B in rainy southern Netherlands

Dawn Kersula <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  I'm musing over the "better mother" etc concepts and thinking about
something I heard at the US Breastfeeding Committee conference. Don't
remember who, how or where - but the idea was, because breastfeeding is a
"one-feeder system", the mom picks up on vry subtle differences in the baby
long before it would happen in a multiple feeder system. They were quoting
an MD at a hospital who talked about how breastfeeding decreased the
incidence of spinal meningitis in infants. It was a real "aha" moment for me
and it has encouraged me to keep on encouraging the moms in my groups about
what attentive and smart moms they are!
Dawn Kersula in Vermont

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