My (not the baby's) doctor is a DO family practice doc who specializes in alternative and complementary medicine. He was stoked and supportive of my homebirth. I have been battling a nasty cold/sinus infection/yellow snot coming out of everywhere thing so I made an appointment today. I felt so comfortable knowing I could count on him to prescribe something that would work for a breastfeeding, cosleeping mother.
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We started to talk options and he asked me how much night nursing I was doing, and did I think I could handle something that would really knock me out (he knows I BF but did not know about the cosleeping yet). I told him I didn't think that would work as my son wakes every 90 minutes or so. And he said, "Have you tried just letting him scream?"
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And from there he kept promoting it, referred to it as "a survival skill he'll have for the rest of his life." He's the last person on the list I would have expected a CIO lecture from. I felt ambushed! It was awful. I'm always waiting for this from the ped (hasn't happened yet, god love her), I never thought MY doctor would be telling me to CIO!
