On Saturday, Dec 20, 2003, at 10:20 US/Eastern, Automatic digest
processor wrote:

> What's frustrating are the calls I get such as this one a couple of
> days ago
> from a mom who called to report her 8 wk old's weight and run by me
> what HCP
> said to her;  "Baby's get all they need to eat in the first seven
> minutes, so
> after that nursing is just for comfort-a pacifier or thumb is fine to
> substitute,"  "at 12 pounds a baby doesn't need to eat at night and
> should sleep 12
> hr,"  "if you have to co-sleep, use bolsters around the baby and you
> to keep you
> from rolling over on him; the only SIDS death in my practice was from
> co-sleeping."


How about if you write to or call the doctor and tell him or her that
you were very interested in the advice given to this mom and you wonder
if he could send you the research references, because the research that
you are familiar with is very different. :-)

Naomi Bar-Yam
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
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Researcher, Writer, Educator
in Maternal and Child Health
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