what causes low blood supply in babies
Breastfeeding Problems - Low blood sugar and the Breastfed Baby. Modified from: NEW BEGINNINGS, Vol. 14 No. 4, July-August 1997, pp. 107-8. By Edie Orr and Betty Crase. Hypoglycemia is the technical term for low blood sugar (low concentrations of glucose, the sugar found in blood). When the body's rate of use of glucose is greater than the rate of glucose production, the plasma glucose concentration falls. If it falls too far too fast in the newborn period, hypoglycemia results.