when the initial Wall Street Journal article came out about the dehydrated
babies who were (not being) breastfed, my LC friend had in her practice a
baby who had had a horrible reaction to formula, and was hypotonic and
underweight and really pathetic.  The family was interviewed for the story,
but because the illness was related to formula feeding, the reporter refused
to use it for any sort of story.

> . Babies do die
> from undernourishment from diluted AIM, and hypernatremic dehydration and
> kidney overtaxation from underdiluted formula. People have been lulled into
> a
> false sense of security, that AIM feeding is so easy and safe... and with TV
> shows, the newspapers, even medical persons, still touting that there is no
> compelling reason to avoid it. And Dr Jack is right, the stories of these
> children dying from poorly prepared AIM get no coverage at all. Even
> "well-prepared" AIM is risky, but we don't even see the issue of the need to
> be able to read and follow directions and measure properly to prevent infant
> AIM-related deaths, mentioned either...Even for women who don't want to
> "breast" feed, expressed milk in a bottle can't cause these kinds of deaths,
> and should routinely be encouraged...sheesh...
>

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