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Less Cancer. La Leche mothers and their handbook put less emphasis on such basic drives than on the welfare of mother and child. Medical research firmly supports their contention that a breast-fed baby is less liable than a bottle-fed baby to such distressing complaints as diarrhea, colic, diaper rash, allergies and infections-from the common cold to influenza and poliomyelitis. He also benefits emotionally from frequent fondling and being cradled in Mother's arms. The mother herself benefits because hormone changes associated with lactation speed contraction of the uterus after the stretching caused by childbirth. The incidence...
Evening is often a time of trial for new parents. It brings the dreaded hour when their otherwise happy infant starts screaming its tiny head off. Grandma, of course, knows just what is wrong: the baby has colic. But neither Grandma nor the doctor knows the cause of the trouble. And after years of searching, reports the British Medical Journal, the mystery remains...
...have suggested just about every possible explanation. The baby has been underfed or overfed. The formula was too hot, too cold, too frequent, too infrequent, too weak, too strong, or it contained too much fat, carbohydrate or protein. All manner of diseases have been indicted. One writer suggested that colic comes from "bouncing the baby" too much. Another said that it is due to the father's smoking when he gets home, and a third thought that crybabies are simply malingering, that they are actually in less pain than they pretend. Many psychiatrists favor the theory that maternal anxiety...
Citing a study by Dr. Jack Leon Paradise of the Bellaire (Ohio) Clinic, the B.M.J. reports that "the incidence of colic was unrelated to social class, the mother's age, the birth order, the child's sex, the weight gain, the type of feeding, a history of allergic disease or maternal emotional factors." All of which leaves colic as mysterious as ever...
...their theory is correct, though, such crying babies would not actually have colic, which characteristically involves wind trapped in the stomach and intestines and is relieved by passing the air orally or rectally. Otherwise, the bone-bothered babies behave much like their colicky brothers. They begin crying between 6 and 10 at night, keep it up for hours, even if fed or fondled, cannot be treated with complete success, and will suddenly quit their nightly crying jags when they are four months...