Stepahine, In this area, it may be useful for you to look outside your own culture. The term "breastfeeding jaundice" is not one even used in most countries, and the aggressive practices you mention are not standard, or even common, in most maternity units across the world. If medical proceedures and terms are not standard, it's often useful to investigate why: has culture made a problem when there isn't one? I can imagine how difficult it might be, to be asked to do a paper on something by your lecturers, to find that it doesn't exist, especially when you have so many papers stating it does. But I think if you look closley, there is no such thing as 'breastfeeding jaundice', there is only jaundice in newborns, and the issues on how that is best treated, if at all. That jaundice presents differently, sometimes, for those newborns on formula, is an issue of looking at what the formula is doing and/or checkign assumptions about what is actually going on. Jaundice is not caused by breastfeeding. If this sounds topsy turvey to you, I'd reccomend you read this article: http://www.fresnofamily.com/articles/watchyourlanguage.htm It explains that the language used in the past few decades around breastfeeding, has had a tendacy to pitch formula as the 'norm' and thus describe breastfeeding, and breastmilk as 'extra' or 'different'. This is not a rational approach. Breastmilk, and breastfeeding, are the norm. Evrything else should be described in relation to it: it is the default. Thus we can't have breastfeeding jaundice - only jaundice. I'm hoping that makes sense: I'm suggesting you widen out your search to look at all issues of jaundice in newborns, and not just concentrate on the myth of 'breastfeeding causes jaundice'. You may be surprised by what you find. You might want to start with 5.3.2 here... http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/msm_98_3/msm_98_3_6.html whereby the WHO states it is "It is both normal and common for healthy newborn infants to become jaundiced." If it is both common and normal, then it is not a problem and it is not related to breastfeeding, but to being born? This may sound spectacularly useless advice. But there are those of us who'd argue that it's only by staying in touch with the normal and common, and changing the language, that real change can occur. If you 'defend' against 'breastfeeding jaundice' you are always going to be arguing within a faulty structure - and you will never win - for you are agreeing such a thing exists. If you change your own language so you only discuss "common and normal jaundice in healthy newborns" then you make them have to prove otherwise. :-) You could actually start your report off on the langauge issue, and state up front, you will be discussing 'newborn jaundice'. :-) Hope this helps Morgan Gallagher (In the UK, where we don't have "breastfeeding jaundice" - just jaundice) Stephanie Lloyd wrote: > Hello. I am a nursing student in Indianapolis, IN and was assigned to study > and present a report on breastfeeding jaundice. I am appreciative of this > assignment as I have learned so much; however, my studies have raised many > concerns for me. JCAHO has issued an alert regarding BFJ and the alert > focuses on improvements in patient care in order to prevent BFJ. These > improvements focus on assessment, follow-up care, education and aggressive > action with babies that are not feeding effectively. > > *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]