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To Barbara Ash

Don't forget that "human milk" fortifier doesn't contain human milk. It is
*artificial* milk, I believe of bovine (cow) origin, that only gets "human
milk" in the name because it is marketed for adding to human milk.  It
really needs a name change as it is misleading.

Virginia
Virginia Thorley, OAM, DipEd, MA, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant.
Cultural Historian working in the History of Medicine
PhD candidate, University of Queensland, St Lucia,
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Barbara wrote:
> .... the
> pediatrician decided she needed more calories to try to bring down the
bili in
> an effort to avoid hospitalization, so he ordered the parents to
supplement
> breastfeeding with concentrated liquid formula diluted at 70% of the
> recommended water:formula proportion "to give her more calories".  Has
anyone heard of
> this before?  I was concerned that this would be hard on  her kidneys, and
> digestive system in general.
>
> Second question:  is it possible to fortify formula with human milk
> fortifier to achieve the same outcome?  I asked the question, but he
didn't  get it
> and said she didn't have enough breastmilk to bother.
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