Dear Lacnuts,
I have two things worth mentioning:
1. I recently picked up the "Parenting Pages" which is a newsletter for the
California Consortium To Prevent Child Abuse and to my astonishment there was
a picture of a mother bottle-feeding her baby on page two with the following
information next to the picture:
"Human babies require more support for a longer period of time to reach
maturity as healthy, intelligent, well-adjusted beings than any other living
species on the planet. The parenting of human being requires parents to be
skillful in many roles during the years of rearing their children. Parents
must be nutritionists, paramedics, arbitrators, chauffeurs, coaches, social
planners, movie critics, tailors or seamstresses and paralegals just to name
a few. Built into each of these roles, as well as being a role itself, is
teaching. Parents above all are teachers."
So why is it necessary to include a picture with a mother bottle feeding? If
anyone is interested in writing: California Consortium to Prevent Child
Abuse, 1600 Sacramento Inn Way, Suite 123, Sacramento, CA 95815 or
916-648-8010.
Also, if anyone has an article or resources about child abuse and
breastfeeding, please e-mail me privately.
2. "Breastfeeding Today" a newsletter from the Lea**** Cu*** has an article
about formula which is very positive except it says "The new AAP policy
discourages the use of formulas "with rare exceptions," like infants born to
mothers with HIV, TB or substance abuse problems. Also, some mothers simply
can't breastfeed, (in adoptions for instance) so fortunately, artificial milk
does exist."
What do you think?
3. Chrity Brinkley (sp?), but I hope you know who I mean! Anyway she
advertises the Total Gym on Lifetime and she says a few things that I really
don't like which are as follows:
"I'm a nursing mother and 4 months after having a baby I only have 8 lbs left
to lose and I've done it all with the Total Gym because I cannot starve
myself. I owe it my baby to eat well and have good nutrition and I haven't
gone hungry a day but the pounds are dropping off and its all from the total
gym . ."
"And you know what the best thing is about the Total Gym, I mean the best. Is
that just 4 months after having my third baby I can fit back into my old
clothes again ahh what a relief"
So I'm I reading too much into this? Not that there is anything that we can
do about this, but it does worry me commercials like these can really push
moms to lose the weight.
Smiles,
Yvonne
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Yvonne C. Bannister, IBCLC
Hollister, CA
Private Practice/Baby's BestFeeding
"A mother holds her baby . . . who lovingly holds her breast and gets the
best!"
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