feedback for "Parental Advisory: Nursing Degree"
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A two week old gaining 12 ounces in one week, WOW! My little one was always a slow gainer and that was okay, since my husband is very slight and our baby's weight gain "curve" was consistent. My kid tended to gain around 4-5 ounces a week and later when we started giving her formula, she still never gained the much touted 1 pound a week.
posted by : Alisa on 8/13/2008 at 11:22 AM Flag For Abuse
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Keep on with the nursing, mama, you are doing just fine. Sounds a bit like emotional sabbotauge from your pediatrician!
posted by : LogicalMama on 8/13/2008 at 3:45 PM Flag For Abuse
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You are doing a great job and keep it up. My daughter took 3 weeks just to regain her birth weight, she is doing fine and still nursing 2 years later. Nurse on demand, and your body will make exactly the right milk your baby needs.
posted by : Nursing Mama on 8/13/2008 at 5:49 PM Flag For Abuse
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Good job! I had a decent amount of push back from my pediatricians regarding nursing my infant. Every appointment I was asked how much formula he was eating. I would calmly and kindly say he was nursing exclusively so, none. As we approached 6 months I was told "good luck keeping up with his appetite" by a skeptical female pediatrician. I have been repeatedly misinformed by my own physicians about what medicines are safe during nursing and I often went without medicines I could have taken (A spinal tap with no anesthesia, another painful procedure I could have had pain control for if the doctors knew anything about what is and isn't safe.) Check for yourself with a website like LactMed to determine what is and isn't safe.
Keep up the good work, all you nursing mommas.
posted by : Nutmeg on 8/16/2008 at 11:13 AM Flag For Abuse
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Your body wil adjust to your babies needs - sounds like it already is with that big gain the past week. My second baby was a terrible feeder - on and off all the time and my public health nurse suggested putting him on the same breast 3 or 4 times to ensure he got the back milk - the rich stuff. The front milk is more watery and sugary so tends to make babies more gassy if that is all they are getting. It worked like a charm and my little guy doubled his birth weight by 10 weeks old - seemed unreal to me because he would feed for 2 minutes at a time (every 15 minutes for an hour or 2!! But I just kept putting him back onto the same breast until it felt relieved) Also, as he got older, he would only have a BM every 4 days, which I mentioned to my Ped. - he said that was because my milk was ultra rich - a good thing. Also meant that my milk had adjusted to my guys boob and bolt style. I think you need not worry - our bodies are made for this and are much more in sync with our babies than doctors ever will be with their patients.... Good luck and trust your self...
posted by : Lisaloo on 8/16/2008 at 6:36 PM Flag For Abuse
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i wish more mothers could get the message that they should trust themselves and that Drs are not all-knowing gods!
Clearly YOU already have excellent intuition about these matters which will serve you well as a mother! Keep up the good work!
posted by : BirthJunkie on 8/20/2008 at 5:20 PM Flag For Abuse
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Hate to say this, but your doctor is an idiot. This reminds me of reading about doctors who would make mothers express milk into a clear container, swirl the milk around, and look at it while holding it up to bright light. They would then tell the mother how "rich" her milk was. If it was "thin" such as in the mornings, she was told not to breastfeed.
#1 get a new doctor pronto. Any doc who still uses the pseudoterminology
"rich" or "thin" to describe breastmilk went to med school 40 years ago. If it's more recent, maybe the medical degree was obtained via correspondence courses. You can't trust a doc who can't even get the easy stuff right. What will you do in a life-threatening emergency when you can't look up something on the internet to be able to tell if that quack may kill or maim your child?
#2 make sure the doc actually has a valid medical license.
#3 warn everyone you know to stay away from him/her.
#4 send a letter explaining your reasons for leaving and, in a not-so-nice way, let him/her know that he/she is incompetent.
Good luck.
posted by : mldubose on 8/20/2008 at 6:17 PM Flag For Abuse
