Well...not really, but it could've happened.
My Pastor's wife yesterday was telling me how her daughter is still breastfeeding (baby 4 weeks old). I was happy to hear it (Pastor's wife nursed one of her 3 childrenfor 14 months...not sure about the other two) and asked if the baby ever had to have formula. The reason I asked it b/c I knew the baby had juandice early on and in my experience that is the number one foolish reason for a woman to be told to supplement. She said, yes but not b/c of the juandice. I had a really skeptical look on my face, so she countered with "but I was right, i called the doctor...", of course, then my look became even more skeptical. She then told me that her daughter called her and said that the baby is eating every 55 minutes which she "knew" wasn't right and so she called her doctor and the doctor told her that she needed to supplement b/c she wasn't making enough milk! My heart hurt b/c I knew that soooo many women are hearing this crap and believing every word.
Luckily, another lactivist was sitting next to me so when I told her how that was bad advice and that babies at that age eat that often and it's NORMAL, the other woman confirmed it and she believed me (a little). She said it wasn't like that when she nursed. I didn't say anything to that but in my head I was thinking, they told you to feed your newborn rice cereal and fruits and veggies and you did that too! I was also thinking about how so often back then when formula first appeared that they had such terrible recommendations for bfing. I told her that it's very rare that a mother doesn't make enough milk for her baby and not to mention that with nursing it's supply and demand meaning that if she starts supplementing that she will make less milk thus compounding the problem.
It just burns me up that doctor's push formula to women who would otherwise keep doing what they're doing for a successful breastfeeding story! I became a Ph.D scientist and you think that would count for something but when I try to educate women on these things, they defer to their 'doctors' advice w/o doubting it. I really wish that I had become an MD instead b/c obviously that's the only way to get women to listen! I am saddened by the advice women are getting. Dh says that I should just learn to accept that not everyone is going to be proactive and do research when their doctors tell them something. It just breaks my heart sometimes.
anywho, the daughter is still nursing at least but I think of all the other women whose bf relationship was ruined b/c of the ignorance.
My Pastor's wife yesterday was telling me how her daughter is still breastfeeding (baby 4 weeks old). I was happy to hear it (Pastor's wife nursed one of her 3 childrenfor 14 months...not sure about the other two) and asked if the baby ever had to have formula. The reason I asked it b/c I knew the baby had juandice early on and in my experience that is the number one foolish reason for a woman to be told to supplement. She said, yes but not b/c of the juandice. I had a really skeptical look on my face, so she countered with "but I was right, i called the doctor...", of course, then my look became even more skeptical. She then told me that her daughter called her and said that the baby is eating every 55 minutes which she "knew" wasn't right and so she called her doctor and the doctor told her that she needed to supplement b/c she wasn't making enough milk! My heart hurt b/c I knew that soooo many women are hearing this crap and believing every word.
Luckily, another lactivist was sitting next to me so when I told her how that was bad advice and that babies at that age eat that often and it's NORMAL, the other woman confirmed it and she believed me (a little). She said it wasn't like that when she nursed. I didn't say anything to that but in my head I was thinking, they told you to feed your newborn rice cereal and fruits and veggies and you did that too! I was also thinking about how so often back then when formula first appeared that they had such terrible recommendations for bfing. I told her that it's very rare that a mother doesn't make enough milk for her baby and not to mention that with nursing it's supply and demand meaning that if she starts supplementing that she will make less milk thus compounding the problem.
It just burns me up that doctor's push formula to women who would otherwise keep doing what they're doing for a successful breastfeeding story! I became a Ph.D scientist and you think that would count for something but when I try to educate women on these things, they defer to their 'doctors' advice w/o doubting it. I really wish that I had become an MD instead b/c obviously that's the only way to get women to listen! I am saddened by the advice women are getting. Dh says that I should just learn to accept that not everyone is going to be proactive and do research when their doctors tell them something. It just breaks my heart sometimes.
anywho, the daughter is still nursing at least but I think of all the other women whose bf relationship was ruined b/c of the ignorance.
but anyway back to the point. Their DD was born at 36 weeks 2 days and she was 5lbs 2oz, my friend did nurse, which I was happy about and surprised, baby was also supplemented for a few days due to low blood sugar and her birth weight but not with a bottle only with finger feeding. Ok now baby is 4.5 months old and DH told me that his friend said that they had asked the Dr. about when they could give the baby cereal 
: because she was nursing 18 times a day and mom felt that she wasn't getting enough milk and was tired of having to nurse her all the time. The DR. told them anytime after 4 mons 
Why do Dr.s keep saying this???? This is old advice and so wrong 
