Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine on AAP SIDS recommendation

[Janice in Canada]

More statements in response to AAP recommendations:

Breastfeeding Is Associated with a Lower Risk of SIDS According to The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
10/14/2005 2:26:00 PM EST

Contrary to even the recommendations of its own Section on Breastfeeding, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released an ill-advised and ill-informed statement from its Task Force on SIDS (1) (sudden infant death syndrome). Recommendations that advise against parent-infant bed-sharing and support the generic use of pacifiers imply a "truly astounding triumph of ethnocentric assumptions over common sense and medical research," according to Nancy Wight, M.D., president of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. These controversies, and many more, will be addressed in the upcoming, new peer-reviewed journal Breastfeeding Medicine (www.liebertpub.com/bfm), the Official Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (www.bfmed.org).

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Janice

[MoeInfinity]

Thank God! There are still some signs of intelligent life in the medical community---thanks for posting Janice.

[jeanine123]

I must say I'm very happy and heartened to see so many people issuing such fast and strongly worded statements against the AAP recommendations. It's good to know we're not the only ones who think the AAP is full of hot air to say the least.

[sntm]

Dr. Wight is fabulous. The ABM also has Jay Gordon, Jack Newman, Ruth Lawerence, Larry Gartner and numerous other prominent physicians as members. And a couple of non-prominent ones, too (like me )

[CherryBomb]

Good to hear! Nice to have some proof that we're not just talking out our a$%es :P

[Ruthla]

Originally Posted by jeanine123

I must say I'm very happy and heartened to see so many people issuing such fast and strongly worded statements against the AAP recommendations. It's good to know we're not the only ones who think the AAP is full of hot air to say the least.

Amen!!