Linda,

Encourage him to join the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. 

Gail Hertz, MD, IBCLC, FABM 
Author of The Little Green Book of Breastfeeding Management
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> On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:38 AM, Linda Anderegg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Just need to vent after meeting our new head Neonatologist today.  We lost
> our previous kind, breastfeeding knowledgeable and supportive Neo who was
> helping us try to get donor milk for our Special Care Nursery.  Our new one
> could not be more opposite.  He told me how happy he was to work with me and
> then proceeded to tell me he was an expert on nutrition and breastfeeding
> and has lectured all over the country and the world on the topic.  His
> special interest is DHA and ARA.  He says that "Breastmilk is best, but it
> can be better" with supplementation of the mother's diet with DHA.  He said
> that research shows that preterm breastmilk is inadequate after 8 days
> because it then becomes full term milk, that Brand S formula's research is
> flawed because their formula's DHA level  is deficient as it has the same
> level as mother's milk, which is also deficient in DHA, and Brand E had
> better outcomes because it has much higher levels, and that mothers must be
> supplemented with DHA (manufactured by Brand E).   He also said that donor
> milk is the worst milk because the pasteurization process destroys most of
> the immunities in the milk and changes the protein.  He says that in the
> hospitals that use donor milk, mothers are requesting donor milk for their
> babies instead of providing their own milk and that this is a very common
> practice that will happen more and more with increased use of donor milk.
> He also doesn't believe there is any need to protect the gut by giving only
> breastmilk to start, says there is no research that proves formula causes
> any harm to the gut.  He is also going to switch from Brand S' liquid
> fortifier to Brand E's powdered fortifier.  We currently use no powdered
> formulas.
> 
> My head was pounding after his marketing spiel and I politely countered many
> of his claims, but I felt like I had just been cornered and verbally
> assaulted by a formula rep like I had been in the past.  He is on Brand E's
> payroll.  Our educator said that he had some of the nurses in tears this
> weekend.  He ended his marketing pitch again by telling me how happy he was
> to be working with me.  Ugh!
> 
> End of rant.
> 
> Linda Anderegg, BSN, RNC, IBCLC in Chicago
> 
> 
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