If breastfeeding is the normal, only way to feed babies (as we know) then
maybe these formula-fed babies are actually missing out on something.

Maybe we should be worried that they have the problem, not normally-fed
babies.  Could it be nature's way of requiring regular frequent nursing to
establish breastfeeding well?  Could it be some other protective measure?
Because babies have lived for thousands of years on mother's milk and
suddenly every other baby has jaundice now that we know how to measure it.
Could it have just been considered normal, nothing worth noting, all this
time?

I don't claim to know anything much about this.  But my children, and all
other breastfed infants I've ever seen, have been jaundiced in the first days
and weeks.  Obviously I'm not talking about serious or dangerous levels, but
it's something to wonder about.  Why do hospitals consider even healthy,
fullterm, well-fed nursing infants with mild jaundice as having a problem and
requiring treatment?

Kerri

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