nipple-confusion "myth" - Page 2

[kalynnsmom]

I might have to send a letter to them as well. I, too, fought nipple confusion with one of my twins. My sister is now EP'ing I believe due to nipple confusion, and my brother's GF quit I also believe due to nipple confusion (I believe this because when I went to visit them in the hospital, there were bottles of formula)

[kalynnsmom]

I may just have to send a letter then! I, too, fought nipple confusion with one of my twins (fortunately, everything worked out). But I believe that my sister is EP'ing due to nipple confusion and my brother's GF quit due to nipple confusion (I believe this because when I went to visit them in the hospital, there were bottles of formula by their bedside)


ETA: Dang it, I didn't realize I posted it twice... I can't delete it either..sorry about that.

[mommydancer]

I really appreciate all the collaborative comments. I feel good knowing other people get how this is potentially harmful. The nurses (and some friends) acted like I was nuts refusing even the pacifier in the hospital, but I was really concerned about putting anything foreign in his mouth. (You know, like made in China.)

Thank you to Jeanine123 for your extensive, well-informed post. I feel whoever wrote this magazine article may have picked up a book on BFing in the course of their research...but they put it back down before reading it at all. If you are going to write about a topic, do some real research.

Thanks to Sappire for the link.

[jeanine123]

You're welcome. I had to tear apart the article for someone else so I figured I'd just copy what I wrote for them here. I was in the mood to rip into something yesterday and this article was kind enough to oblige.

[APmomto3boys]

I just left a comment here:

http://www.parenting.com/parenting/m...692505,00.html

please do the same!

I spend my free time bouncing back and forth on mainstream parenting forums giving bf'ing advice and the NUMBER ONE problem that I have seen is nipple confusion! Not to mention that introducing a bottle in the frst 6 weeks can have major implications on a new moms supply! ugh! I really detest these magazines.

[bbrandonsmom]

Good, I felt like I was the only one a little upset at that article. For some reason the mag came in the mail and the bf article caught my eye so I read it. I felt like the whole article was a giant contradiction. We had nipple confusion, I don't know why people say that. Some babies do, some don't. With ds 1 he latched on immediately after birth and did so well he had the lc's and nurses talking about him. Then the nursery goes and gives him a bottle w/o our consent and it completely messed him up. Make that three bottles they gave him before I had to threaten them to give me my son. Two weeks of battling to get a good latch and keep it. With ds2 I learned my lesson (plus he was a birth center birth), and no bottle there. Of course even w/o any bottles, at about 2wks he started to get a shallow latch and we had some issues.

[mommydancer]

thank you

Thank you so much Sapphire, for the link, and thank you also to Jeanine123 for your well informed, well documented post. I am glad to be among true lactivists.

[babylove2007]

Wow, that's exactly what I was told by the pediatric nurses at our hospital--"no such thing as nipple confusion so just give him a bottle"--only to be followed by almost 6 weeks of working out his....nipple confusion!

I wrote them a letter:

I wanted to comment on your article on nipple confusion being "a myth." I'm happy for the 82% of women who didn't experience it, but I am part of the other 18% (not insignificant by the way). I wish you had been at my house for the first 6 weeks of my son's life as he screamed at my breasts, not recognizing them as food thanks to pediatric nurses who believed nipple confusion was a "myth." Even at 3-4 months, he is unable to take a bottle very often without again reverting to rejecting the breast, because he knew the easier way since birth. Shame on you.

[Mama Poot]

Just wanted to add that that is total BS. I spent ten days getting my first kid to breastfeed because he was badly nipple confused. Add that to not being able to latch on because I was so terribly engorged and we had a real go of things those first weeks. I had to literally shove him into my breast and make him nurse-he got it eventually but it was really freaking hard work. Nipple confusion is REAL. :

[pumpkinhead]

I do believe that "nipple confusion" is a misnomer. The term "nipple/bottle preference" is a much more apt term. It is so completely absurd that some one would try to deny that it exists.

[pumpkinhead]

Breast aversion is also very real. Oh, and I wanted to add, having a newborn is emotionally draining no matter how you choose to feed one.

[ericswifey27]

Originally Posted by Justthatgirl

Emotionally draining??? What??? How?

The exact opposite IMO.

After my csection nursing my baby helped me heal alot of emotional wounds. And that was with some serious latch issues lol.

[HarperRose]

I forget where I post sometimes. :

Just wanted to come back an apologize to any moms that may have been hurt or offended by my question about bf'ing being emotionally draining. I just hadn't thought the whole process through, to be honest. I'm still blissfully babymooning even though the youngest is 3 mos already. I also had zero trouble bf'ing (aside from the nipple rawness in the very beginning w/ #1 and #3) so my question was genuine. I can certainly see how it could come across as hurtful. I apologize.

[honeybunch2k8]

I'm sorry to hear so many of you experienced nipple confusion...I think I will leave a comment...So I suppose one shouldn't bottlefeed or give artificial nipples for at least 6 weeks?