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Dear list,
I just found this info on a "Good Medicine" website
- it was all good except for this:
Myth Four: "Breast milk contains all the nutrients needed up to six months"
- FALSE
Breast milk does not contain enough Vitamin K to prevent some babies from developing bleeding problems in the newborn period. This is why babies are given a Vitamin K injection at birth. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that no supplements should be given to breast fed newborns unless told to do so by a medical professional. As if formula has enough Vit K? As if babies
all of a sudden (anthropologically speaking) NEED more vit K?
Anyway, as an aside, the powers that be at work
have seen fit to place a Midwifery Student with ME as a buddy! I felt
kinda scared at first, but they obviously think I can do it. I have spent
2 shifts with her and it's been great :)
But alas, it is still hopsital - Yesterday I was
lucky I walked in on a doctor doing a discharge check on one of my babies who
hadn't fed for 6 hours (less than 24 hours old, fed well over night). I
caught him telling the poor woman that she should be feeding this baby every 3
hours, and why did she leave it so long to try to feed her? He made me do a
BSL on the baby - it was 4.0 - perfect. He then asked me to get
the LC to come and speak to her about it (because she needed an expert - of
course midwives know nothing about breastfeeding!) The baby was on the
breast, feeding wonderfully, so I got the LC and explianed the
situation. She was shocked - looked at the attachment, told mum how
wonderfully she was doing, then went to speak to the doctor. I hung around
to see what happened, and was impressed :)
*sigh* why don't doctors learn about
breastfeeding?
Enough said,
Jo
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