A few days ago, one of the new dads in the hospital came up to me all
excited.  He showed me what was obviously an antique book in Russian,
which he claimed was a book about breastfeeding written in 1870.  He
said that  everything that I was saying in my morning lecture appeared
in this book.  He made me a copy of the title page, and of another two
pages which touted the virtues of colostrum and how what the baby gets
in the first 3 days is very important.  
1870....before the artificially processed cow's milk ( which is what I
now call it) companies got to doctors and brainwashed them..sigh. 
 
On another topic: we ran the first of a series of one day in-services to
update the staff on breastfeeding.  There was the usual group of
non-believing midwives who now have a new theory.  They claimed that
since breastfeeding is a natural process, lactation consulting actually
causes many problems to mothers.  If we would just leave them alone,
they would do fine.  Of course, my usual retort: giving birth is also a
natural process, and maybe we should not have midwives. Unfortunately, I
did not have any "rotten tomatoes" for that class.   
  One of the nurses in the maternity ward also thinks that breastfeeding
is natural and that moms really do not need help.  I started sending the
moms with the most problems to her, with the promise that I would see
them after they saw her.  She told the mom with orobubular disproportion
that she had beautiful nipples and that her baby was feeding really
well...so why did he lose 15% of birth weight?  Yep, she does not have
milk, or her milk is not nutritious.  
 
Esther Grunis, IBCLC
Lis Maternity Hospital
Tel Aviv, Israel
 

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