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- From: wendy@carson.u.washington.edu (Wendy Grant)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: nipple confusion and feeding newborn glucose-water???
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:02:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <1993Jan18.221701.2603@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
- >In article <30043@optima.cs.arizona.edu> bweiss@cs.arizona.edu (Beth Weiss) writes:
- >
- > Hmmm... the must have did it without my knowledge, because my son didn't
- > start getting dehydrated until he went home. At the hospital he had
- > wet diapers and it wasn't brick red. Then they didn't tell me to give
- > him water, said that as long as he nursed he'd be okay. If my husband
- > wasn't a doctor, we wouldn't have known that the brick colored stains
- > on his diaper meant that he was dehydrated. After we gave him the
- > six ounces of formula his urine was normal.
- >
- > I'm just posting this because I want to make sure people's babys don't
- > get dehydrated before nursing is fully established.
-
-
- I just gave birth on Dec. 28th (birth story still in prep). I was
- told that the red urine is caused by uric acid and was also told (by
- the nurse) that it meant dehydration. But when my pediatrician came
- in to check my baby and I mentioned the red uric acid stains, the
- pediatrician told me not to worry about it. He said there was no
- correlation between the uric acid and dehydration. So I didn't worry
- about it assumming the pediatrician knew more than the nurse. But my
- son did get some glucose water in the early days mostly because I
- was way too out of it even to attempt nursing for about 14 hours
- (Apparently I'm very sensitive to sedatives and when I started vomiting
- while I was being sewn up after the c-section I was given a sedative
- (stops nauseousness) and I was way in the
- ozone for a LONG time. And then my flat nipples didn't help matters....)
- Anyways, whoever asked about this originally (I'm 450 messages behind)
- might want to check with the pediatrican about the necessity for glucose
- water......
-