I Am Very Aggravated.... - Page 3

[jessjgh1]

Here's this, just part of what's in the link.

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefits.html

* In the second year (12-23 months), 448 mL of breastmilk provides:
o 29% of energy requirements
o 43% of protein requirements
o 36% of calcium requirements
o 75% of vitamin A requirements
o 76% of folate requirements
o 94% of vitamin B12 requirements
o 60% of vitamin C requirements
-- Dewey 2001

Thank Goodness!!! My son refuses to eat vegetables.

Jessica

[Benji'sMom]

Originally Posted by muppet729

I was watching the TV at my OB's office and I dont' know if it was CNN or what, but i"ve seen it in other doctor's office- like a closed circuit, show the same thing for a month, info you should know about various things station.

Anyway, they had this big thing on vitamin D and how if your kid was ff then he was just fine but if you were bf your kid needs vitamins to supplement. They were pretty insistant about not giving up on bf just because of this but I coudln't help thinking about it. I mean, I was told at LLL by our LC that even though there isn't the same AMOUNT, that bm vitamin D is absorbed better so kids get it in the same if not better amounts. Does anyone know if anyone has done research to back this up? Just wondering. I kind of lied to my doc about giving dd supplements of vitamin D....

The AAP started recommending Vit D suppliments for ALL babies because some urban babies weren't getting enough sunlight, because they never went outside, and were getting vit d deficiency--rickets. But Dr.s only recommend suppliments for breastfed babies and not ff babies because they are prejudiced against BFing. But if your baby doesn't have rickets, don't worry.

[Sharondio]

Originally Posted by muppet729

Anyway, they had this big thing on vitamin D and how if your kid was ff then he was just fine but if you were bf your kid needs vitamins to supplement.

Heh, that would explain all those kids with rickets I see at my LLL meetings.

[momo7]

BUT THEY ARE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TRUST THEM. THEY HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES IN THIS SORT OF THING. WHAT CAN WE POSSIBLE KNOW ABOUT SUCH THINGS? WE SHOULD LISTEN TO THE DOCTORS....THEY KNOW BETTER THAN WE DO.


Haven't met one yet that has given me nursing advice worth a damn.


Yep. I am not anti-doctor...I am anti-stupid doctor. YEP YEP YEP!

[cancat]

Re: the "nipple confusion" myth...

During my then childless friend's medical education, they had a lactation consultant come in and do a class for them...but afterwards were told (by the teachers?) that nipple confusion is not real and that no baby would starve themselves.

Fast forward to when she had her baby, needed to bottle-feed (EBM) early and the baby started crying whenever she gave her the breast...wow, I wonder what that could be? Anyway, I felt really bad for her, since she just believed whatever the other docs told her and had a horrible breastfeeding experience as a result.

[IAMINSANE]

OMG!!! Ok I think it should be a reqirement in medical school that doctors attend leleche meetings and take a classes on the anatomy and biology of bf!!! Nurses too!

[Benji'sMom]

I just got one from MIL yesteday!

She said when she had her first baby (born ~11 lb I think, all adults in family are very tall, MIL is over 6'), Dr. told her "You can't breastfeed because your milk will not sustain her, you have to start feeding her cereal today." (Meaning the day she was born.) So MIL did, she spoon fed her newborn baby cereal from the day she was born! And MIL told me "He was right about my milk because I ended up getting engorged and she lost half a lb." Wha?: I don't get it. If the baby had been born at 6 lb, she still would have weighed 11 lb eventually, then what? Does MIL think all babies starve to death when they weigh 11 lb.? Is that what the Dr. thought? I don't get it! And does 1/2 lb sound like a large weight loss when you start out at 11lb? I couldn't tell if that was just normal newborn weight loss or maybe there was a feeding schedule that lead to weight loss even though MIL obviously was producing milk, since she was in fact engorged. She didn't say anything about a feeding schedule but there's no telling with that stupid doctor. That means poor DH must also have been fed cereal from birth!

[annettemarie]

So what can we as Lactivists do about this? I know our LLL made contact with all the docs in the area. Frankly, most of them didn't seem all that interested. Is there something we can do? Or is it destined always to be an us-versus-them thing?

[tallulahma]

Originally Posted by Benji'sMom

The AAP started recommending Vit D suppliments for ALL babies because some urban babies weren't getting enough sunlight, because they never went outside, and were getting vit d deficiency--rickets. But Dr.s only recommend suppliments for breastfed babies and not ff babies because they are prejudiced against BFing. But if your baby doesn't have rickets, don't worry.

doctors push vit d on bf babies, because they assume that the ff babes are getting formula that is already fortified with vit d.