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Canahuati <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:02:23 -0400
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Nancy:  I'm sure that you will get about 100 reponses to your message.

First of all, if the baby has been gaining 50 grams per day since birth,
that  is much more than "getting something", that is a one pound gain in 10
days! Did I understand you correctly?

If that is so, your description of baby sounds very much to me as if your
Mom has a really strong let-down reflex and if the figure of the weight gain
is correct, than clearly the baby is taking in quite a lot in those few minutes.

I think that your compatriots are the experts on checking to see if there is
an overactive let-down reflex (does the Mom show any signs of this?) etc.

If the situation seems to be an overactive reflex, there are certainly many
alternatives such as taking the baby off the breast as soon as the milk lets
down so that the strong spray doesn't cause the baby to overreact so much,
nursing the baby "uphill", etc., nursing one breast at a time.

I learned what to do about this from the Australians, so you should have
help at hand, but I remember being quite concerned with the first baby I saw
with this particular type of mother -- baby couldn't seem to get far enough
away and mom thought that the baby didn't want the breast.

Don't know if this is any help to you.

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