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Date: | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 07:56:12 EST |
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The education is so far behind on breastfeeding... I'm working with such great
3 peds, and the Neonatologists here TRY (though we aren't as far as I'd like,
we're far ahead of what we used to be), but then I get a call like the one
yesterday:
" I have a bad flu and went to the ER at a local hospital. The MD there told me
I should stop breastfeeding as the baby had gotten all the benefits of
breastfeeding by now."
"Oh, how old is your baby?"
(trying to follow my own rule of not answering questions until I have asked 13
of my own)
"21 days."
$%^%$$#^*&^%%$ (this under my breath and while I'm counting to 10 - then 20)
"I wonder what "benefits" he was talking about? Let's discuss this..."
AARRGGHH!!
(But actually, I should rejoice - she _callec_ because she had doubts about this
statement - and she was able to _find my number_ and get the correct
information.)
Jeanette Panchula, BA-SW, LLLL, RN, IBCLC
Puerto Rico
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PS Does anyone have a letter they have written to MD's who have really been
uninformed that I could use as a model (would need to translate it to Spanish)?
I think I'm too angry to write one yet - but I have this MD's name...
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