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Date: | Sun, 25 Aug 1996 22:06:18 -0400 |
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To Jane Bradshaw and interested lactnetters,
Thank you so much for your suggestions on assisting Christian families. I'm
going to give them a try.
My largest obstacle has been finding out that they are following Ezzo or
their (childless) pastor's wife's teaching. If I knew ahead of time I know I
could handle the situation better. I found these families to be skeptical of
my suggestions and wary of any information that differs from their method.
One baby lost 17% of his birthweight. She was unwilling to feed more
frequently, but she would pump between feeds and bottle feed the expressed
milk after breastfeeding. According to the family, the pediatrician
supported their beliefs as being "God's Way." On the way out the door on my
last visit with the family I was informed that Satan had taken over my heart,
blah, blah, blah....
This mother referred many new mothers to me this past year. Amazing, isn't
it?
I have not yet found an Ezzo family open to Dr. Sears' books. Apparently
they'd already been warned about him. One mother called me weeks after she
had stopped breastfeeding to tell me she had quit the Ezzo classes in her
church because she was asked to "enter into a covenant" with the Ezzos.
This, she said, was wrong and unChristian. She was looking for a new
church. Her husband was angry. The anguish in her voice was heartbreaking.
Interestingly, she focused on the loss of the breastfeeding relationship
with her baby.
I am a member of our county's Breastfeeding Task Force. The Ezzo program has
been such an issue that we've considered alerting all pediatricians in the
county. I believe that the warnings must come from their pastors and women's
church groups to be accepted. This is such a delicate situation. I don't
like messing with other people's religions.
Either God is wrong, or the Ezzos. Pick one.
Elizabeth Puzar, IBCLC
sister of a pastor, daughter of a missionary, married to a Catholic, still
keeping quiet and offending all relatives equally
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