To a great degree I agree with and to a reasonable degree understand, both
Valerie's and Nikki's point of views.
What Valerie writes and cites and has documentation for is fabulous, and
should be broadcast worldwide,........
But, in the forms and amounts Valerie has been exposed to and taken the
initiative to investigate and study, and to the degree and depth that she
understands, this knowledge is still mostly unknown to the public, I continue to work
on grasping the full scope and implications of it, ....So that may be problem
#1 and a problem that her book could remedy.
I also feel I currently live in Nikki's world, or what I think may be Nikki's
world, ...ie;out there with those occasional moms who swear on *exclusive* BF
and still have sick babies/children, ...ie; a nurse who relates that her 1st
exclusively baby was never ill, until first ear infection at a few years old,
...her second reportedly exclusively BF baby hospitalized with serious
infections more than once, first time at 7 weeks of age, one of those was reportedly
septicemia, ....same story with third reportedly exclusively BF baby, moms
states firmly nothing but breastmilk for many months and still during that period
had these sick hospitalized BF babies and how this she found very upsetting
and disappointing,.... and surprising.
For these moms who then demand an explaination from me on how this can
happen, I cite the statistics and how statistics are statistics, and based on
statistics how much less ill there babies were due to BF, ........and what other
variables could be at play.
I do believe that breastmilk is magic fairy dust but it does not work 100% on
everyone all the time, but vastly most everyone vastly most of the time.
Valerie, what do you think is the best response for LCs to give these moms?
Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
LCAGW Co-VP
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
www.BestBreastfeeding.Info
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