PEDIATRICS Vol. 96 No. 5 November 1995, pp. 966-967
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Early Discharge Alert

Ruth A. Lawrence MD1

1 University of Rochester School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Box 777, Rochester, NY 14642

Early discharge from the hospital after birth has transformed a special rite-de-passage into a crisis for the family. One of the victims of this crisis may be an infant who is breastfeeding. When the process of breastfeeding is not going well, a common response is often to abandon breastfeeding and turn to artifical feeding. Breastfeeding, however, is the ideal method of feeding for the human infant. Human milk is species-specific, ideal for brain growth, physical nourishment, infection protection, immunologic protection, allergy avoidance, and optimal mother-infant interaction. Breastfeeding may be difficult for some mothers because we live in a bottle-feeding culture where the symbol for infancy is a bottle.

Submitted on August 7, 1995
Accepted on August 10, 1995




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