Linda-
This guy is miserably in the dark...we don't have a NICU here in our hospital, but I have learned much about donor milk at seminars, via our state organization, etc. It seems weird to hire someone so formula oriented and also he works for the company! If you are Baby Friendly, is there anything that can be done in that area? Good luck and sorry you are going through this.
Janet Godshall, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Beaver Dam Community Hospital
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/Oh how totally disappointing for you and the institution after you've had such an advocate leave, to be replaced by this extremist marketer.
One would have thought the hospital would have done a thorough screen before employing this person!//It is scary to think where he gets all these facts from. There's got to be some brain//washing and financial incentives from the formula company involved!
I am so, so sorry for you in this situation. Is there really no recourse?
Regards
Eva Hoebee
Australia
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On 12/9/2014 4:38 PM, Linda Anderegg 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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