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When your breastfeeding children are grown and breastfeeding their own
children AND when you breastfeeding children have been quite healthy and
successful in life, it is much easier to tell others with assuredness that most babies
who will only breastfeed and who refuse solids in the second half of their
first year are mostly healthy and continue to be. It is a quick and easy
blood test that puts the whole iron issue to rest. When I have mothers whose
doctors have sent the baby to 'feeding clinics', my immediate suggestion is a
second opinion with a human milk friendly doctor who somehow seems more able to
see the whole child, not just the only breastfeeding problem child. Other
positives are that the children move from nursings to picking up and eating
their own family food and skip the gerber glop.
I believe that these children know exactly what they are doing and what they
need. My child who refused food the longest started out at almost 10 pounds
and was nicknamed Baby Buddha because he was always so pudgy AND energetic.
He is now 29 and a slender and muscular athlete and health care worker.
Anecdotal or unusual, naw---there are too many of us.
Regards,
Jeanne Rago, BA, IBCLC, RLC
Lactation Consultants, Inc.
New Jersey, USA
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