http://blog.cleveland.com/health/200...s_breastf.html
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What next ?
"Infant formula is supplemented with vitamin D, so babies can make up for their low stores at birth."
Right. Because there's a reason, right there, to forget the whole breastfeeding thang, and just give formula instead.... riiiiiight.
"But local pediatricians are referring an increasing number of newborns and infants, mostly those who were exclusively breast-fed, to endocrinologists because of rickets."
Ooooh. Nice little jab here, too ! This is doing such a service to breastfeeding and the health of our world's infant population !
(please read : OODLES of sarcasm)
I also like how the endocrinologist admits, "It's a little skewed...." (re: the fact that she sees so many African-American and Middle-Eastern patients in her practice.... remembering, of course, that darker-skinned people are at a much greater risk for Vit D deficiency).
Yeah, it's a little skewed, indeed.
"Most parents are surprised when they learn what the problem is, particularly when the child has been breast-fed, because it seems that everything a baby needs should be in breast milk, doctors say."
You don't say, eh ? That everything a baby needs should be in breast milk ? And do doctors really say or believe this ? Not to my knowledge. If they DID, wouldn't they all be saying "to hell with those Vit D drops !" ?
"So babies are getting a double whammy -- not enough vitamin D from sun-shunning Mom's low stores before birth and then a poor source of vitamin D in breast milk."
Seems to me pretty evident that it's breastfeeding that is getting the "double whammy"/short end of the stick here.... as is any babe that may now potentially be denied his mama's milk
for fear of the incredibly rare rickets, as a direct result of future parents reading this bunk-a$$, clearly biased article (and especially when prevention AND the cure is just so dang easy AND free --- hello ! SUNLIGHT !?!?).
Un-frickin'-believable.
Wow. Just WOW.
I am not going to be able to sleep tonight, thinking about the number of unsuspecting (uninformed...) parents who are going to read that article, and ultimately decide NOT to breastfeed.
Because I am not kidding myself. It will happen.
And Nestlé will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Seriously. It's this sort of thing that traumatizes me beyond belief....
I think I'm going to cry.
:What next ?
"Infant formula is supplemented with vitamin D, so babies can make up for their low stores at birth."
Right. Because there's a reason, right there, to forget the whole breastfeeding thang, and just give formula instead.... riiiiiight.
"But local pediatricians are referring an increasing number of newborns and infants, mostly those who were exclusively breast-fed, to endocrinologists because of rickets."
Ooooh. Nice little jab here, too ! This is doing such a service to breastfeeding and the health of our world's infant population !
(please read : OODLES of sarcasm)
I also like how the endocrinologist admits, "It's a little skewed...." (re: the fact that she sees so many African-American and Middle-Eastern patients in her practice.... remembering, of course, that darker-skinned people are at a much greater risk for Vit D deficiency).
Yeah, it's a little skewed, indeed.
"Most parents are surprised when they learn what the problem is, particularly when the child has been breast-fed, because it seems that everything a baby needs should be in breast milk, doctors say."
You don't say, eh ? That everything a baby needs should be in breast milk ? And do doctors really say or believe this ? Not to my knowledge. If they DID, wouldn't they all be saying "to hell with those Vit D drops !" ?
"So babies are getting a double whammy -- not enough vitamin D from sun-shunning Mom's low stores before birth and then a poor source of vitamin D in breast milk."
Seems to me pretty evident that it's breastfeeding that is getting the "double whammy"/short end of the stick here.... as is any babe that may now potentially be denied his mama's milk
for fear of the incredibly rare rickets, as a direct result of future parents reading this bunk-a$$, clearly biased article (and especially when prevention AND the cure is just so dang easy AND free --- hello ! SUNLIGHT !?!?).Un-frickin'-believable.
Wow. Just WOW.
I am not going to be able to sleep tonight, thinking about the number of unsuspecting (uninformed...) parents who are going to read that article, and ultimately decide NOT to breastfeed.
Because I am not kidding myself. It will happen.
And Nestlé will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Seriously. It's this sort of thing that traumatizes me beyond belief....
I think I'm going to cry.
Too bad we don't write the articles for the Cleveland Post.
Same is true of our TV medical news reporters -- lots of half-truths and incomplete information.
