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post #1 of 34
12/10/08 at 4:12pm
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This is what the new GP's are being taught. I made a comment at the ENT's that GP's can be stupid, I mentioned the one who said your milk dries up at 11 weeks, there was a GP student there, who has 9 months "training" in OB, he actually thinks this is true ::

He said if you feed too often your milk dries up, usually around 11 weeks :

I tried to tell the student he was wrong, but he wouldn't hear of it.

I guess mothers in this area are screwed when it comes to BF support from new GP's
post #2 of 34
12/10/08 at 4:17pm
post #3 of 34
12/10/08 at 4:28pm
Huh what is this in the UK?? really omg I don't know what to say.............
post #4 of 34
12/10/08 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by mum21andtwins View Post
Huh what is this in the UK?? really omg I don't know what to say.............
imagine my shock when I explained milk synthesis and he still didnt believe me:
post #5 of 34
12/10/08 at 4:48pm
I'm just stunned.....
post #6 of 34
12/10/08 at 5:27pm
when my daughter started loosing weight my pedi told me to space out how many times i fed her so my body actually had a chance to build up milk. He swore that if i nursed her all the time she would only get a few drops and my body would never learn how to produce a lot of milk.
post #7 of 34
12/10/08 at 6:05pm
Ignorance sucks.
post #8 of 34
12/10/08 at 6:09pm
Oh, so I guess those babies that are exclusively breastfed are just growing on air, huh?


I just don't understand where this information comes from, especially this day in age when we have Doctors like Dr. Newman that have already debunked breastfeeding myths.
post #9 of 34
12/10/08 at 6:23pm
If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.

Maybe you place a seed of curiosity and he'll go look it up somewhere.
post #10 of 34
12/10/08 at 6:24pm
Sometimes I think you're better off asking a goat herder for milk advice.
post #11 of 34
12/10/08 at 6:34pm
The incompetence of so many in the medical field disgusts me.
post #12 of 34
12/10/08 at 6:35pm
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Sometimes I think you're better off asking a goat herder for milk advice.
yeah, that! ask any dairy farmer. im sure theyve got a lot more knowledge on lactation than many gps :<
post #13 of 34
12/10/08 at 7:02pm
shut up! :
post #14 of 34
12/10/08 at 7:03pm
So they think your body only produces a certain amount of milk...flat, period, the end? That makes NO SENSE.

And, by the way Mr. Doctor, thanks for assuming my body is stupid and not properly created to take care of my baby.:
post #15 of 34
12/10/08 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by pumpkinhead View Post
Ignorance sucks.

ITA

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Originally Posted by RomanCarmelMom View Post
Oh, so I guess those babies that are exclusively breastfed are just growing on air, huh?


I just don't understand where this information comes from, especially this day in age when we have Doctors like Dr. Newman that have already debunked breastfeeding myths.
NO ONE has heard of Newman, I donated my book to the NICU

I always say my baby is living on air, cause I can pump no more than 15mls and that is a very very very very good day for me!!!

When I tell the GP that they think I'm starving her, but although she is small she is gaining 5+ oz a week and happens to have 3 chins, chubby arms and even boobs, so I think she isn't starving just yet

I have tried to educate on lactation and the other sin co sleeping (I'm a neglectful mother who is so cheap she didn' buy a crib) (I'm not broke so I don't see that comment as even possible)

More times than I can count I have been advised

1.to quit BF or
2.to "top up" (ie a 9 oz bottle of formula after a feed)
3 to give solids (she is 16 weeks and 4 weeks early)


I'm often told to, you can't feed her while we/you do this, I have my own tag line

Watch me
post #16 of 34
12/10/08 at 7:35pm
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Originally Posted by AFWife View Post
So they think your body only produces a certain amount of milk...flat, period, the end? That makes NO SENSE.

And, by the way Mr. Doctor, thanks for assuming my body is stupid and not properly created to take care of my baby.:
Well, I wouldn't say that 100% your argument is true, cause I know for me there does seem to be a limit, my baby nurses at least every hour too, but I can't make more than I am it seems, I am at "max" I couldn't feed another 3 kids, some mums could feed a whole tribe.

Some mothers bodies just can't supply enough milk, but that is a whole other discussion.

This wasn't an in depth discussion just he made a passing comment, in general mothers CAN and DO make enough milk, and clearly since we're all here mothers have milk after 11 weeks or mankind would be pretty dead by now
post #17 of 34
12/10/08 at 7:35pm
this is so sad...
post #18 of 34
12/10/08 at 8:31pm
Unfortunately, I don't think it's ignorance. It's just plain stupidity. In the 300,000 years that some sort of human (depending on where you consider "human" to have officially evolved) has been on the Earth, for most of that time milk has only been available from the females of our species. There are still many cultures in the world who do not have domesticated milk-giving animals, and among those that do, drinking the milk of another species is rare. Obviously women produce milk for longer than 11 weeks. To think otherwise is just stupid. I could be "taught" that the moon is made of cheese, and to believe that wouldn't be ignorance, it would be stupidity.
post #19 of 34
12/10/08 at 8:37pm
It's willful ignorance to 'believe' something as self-evidently untrue as that.
post #20 of 34
12/11/08 at 9:04am
Ugh. What garbage.
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