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Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:09:55 EST
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Dear Friends:
    The NICU at one hospital where I am happy to be LC  is not very 
knowledgeable about human milk and breastfeeding. Babies are fed on  schedule, and must 
be able to take all feeds by bottle before discharge. One of  the 
neonatologists there said out loud at a staff meeting that human milk is  insufficient 
nutritionally for the first few days, even for healthy term  babies.
    Our lactation brigade is working hard, as you all  may imagine.
    However the staff has posed a few interesting  questions that I am asking 
for help with understanding. 
    One: about all the research about bf and human milk  being good for 
premies. Staff here say that research does not apply to sick  premies, but only to 
well ones. Is that true?
    Second: premies are supplemented with human milk  substitutes because 
they have to have a volume to prevent side effects from some  of the antibiotics, 
like gentamycin. Is this true?
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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