Oh, Denise, I'm envious; you got way more than I did!
Becky Saenz, MD, IBCLC

At 08:33 PM 10/24/99 PDT, you wrote:
>This is what I remember about the breastfeeding curriculum in medical school
>and residency...
>I don't recall any lectures in the first two years of basic sciences.. My
>husband remembers having 2 lectures where he went to school. He says this is
>when he learned an association between bf and higher IQ. My  junior
>rotations included  6 weeks of peds and OB each.Senior electives included a
>month each of OB, Newborn nursery,NICU,PICU(in central Florida) and Family
>medicine with OB(at a different central Florida Hospital). My junior OB
>experience was at 3 different hospitals. I remember having the impression if
>a mother chose to breastfeed, she was making a decision that interfered with
>our interventions,ie... birth control... No one was discharged without birth
>control. During my senior year I recall some moms using the pump and seeing
>a freezer filled with breast milk. On rounds I do remember the neonatologist
>asking us if the milk of premature mothers is well suited for premature
>infants. I don't remember the answer. I do remember doing alot of
>calculations on calories/ounce of infant formula to give to preemies based
>on weight. Also one of the hospitals prescribed parlodil, the other said
>their was not any studies to show that it helped dry up milk quicker.I
>remember discharging a lot of mothers with instructions to wear tight
>bras(to dry up the milk) for a week.
>My residency in Family Medicine was done at the same school. I don't recall
>a lot of breastfeeding talks,but our family medicine dept. did promote a
>more family oriented birth experience compared to the OB dept.The two
>departments quarrelled a lot about intervention in labor. My husband
>remembers a well liked family practice attending pumping milk. I did a
>prenatal rotation in a rural clinic, I recall a poster listing benefits of
>breastfeeding. On that rotation I began to encourage women to breastfeed.
>The pediatric residents all had really cool overnight bags with the teddy
>bear logo on it. The peds residents were a very fertile group, but I don't
>recall any of them talking about breastfeeding their baby.
>And I do remember going to two lectures on which formula to use.Same
>lecture,but two different years.
>Denise Punger MD
>Medical College Of Georgia class of 93-who also remembers being taught that
>much of what we teach now will be proven wrong by future research
>http://doctor.medscape.com/denisepungermd
>
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