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Originally Posted by 2Bugs
 Yes, she said on the show she was going to do a combo of bottlefeeding and breastfeeding.
I've repeatedly heard "Oh, he was so big, he was just hungry all the time and I couldn't keep up". I think usually this is a *paradigm* problem rather than a feeding problem. We've got this societal pressure to produce cookie-cutter babies that eat every 3 hours and sleep all night by the time they're 2 or 3 months old. Which of course is a rare occurence in an exclusively breastfed baby. Breastmilk digests in 90 minutes and baby's hungry again. Baby's up all night nursing because it's biologically programmed to nurse when mom's prolactin levels are highest. But if the mother doesn't know better, she thinks "Oh, something must be wrong--my baby isn't satisfied." And then we've got the majority of the medical world comparing breastmilk against formula, when it should be the other way around. So we've got medical providers telling women that they don't have enough Vit. D, Iron and Vit. K in their milk because it doesn't have as much as formula. This, as far as I can tell, seems to be a HUGE basis for vit. K shots at birth. Because colostrum doesn't contain as much vit. K as formula.   Jen |
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