You're welcome, Esther, and thank you for the compliment. Good luck
translating my stuff into Hebrew!
Reading this thread has reminded me of another metaphor I like to use. I
use this when mothers can't seem to believe that breastfed babies are
*supposed* to eat more often than bottle-fed babies. We have a real problem
here with mothers thinking that the only definition of a well-fed baby is
that he not eat more often than every 3 - 4 hours. For that kind of mom,
I'll say something along these lines:
Suppose your neighbor (friend, whoever) and you had dinner together, at a
restaurant. You had a steak, a baked potato with butter & sour cream, a
vegetable and a piece of key lime pie for dessert (we are in Miami, after,
all, where key lime pies RULE <g>). Your friend had a pasta salad. Lots of
little crunchy raw veggies in the salad. Maybe she had a little skinless
chicken breast in the salad. Perhaps some fruit for dessert.
"Which one of you is going to be hungry FIRST?" I ask. The answer that
ALWAYS comes back to me is Miss Pasta Salad. "Okay", I say. "Does that
mean that your friend didn't eat enough? Does it mean that there was
something wrong with her food? Does it mean that what she chose to eat was
nutritionally inadequate? No! It simply means that she had a lighter meal
than you did, one that is likely to be digested more quickly than your
steak, baked potato, sour cream & pie."
"Formula is the steak & baked potato," I tell them. "Breastmilk is the
pasta salad. It's wonderful food, tasty, nutritious & a lot healthier than
that steak. You're better off eating the pasta salad. But it's not going
to sit in your stomach for as long as the steak will."
That usually makes my point that it's NORMAL for a breastfed baby to eat
more often than an artificially fed one......
Regina Roig Lane, BS IBCLC for Miami-Dade County WIC, who's really enjoying
this thread :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esther [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:27 AM
> Subject: Regina's metaphors
>
> Regina.... Loved your metaphors!!
> I have printed them and will now try to figure how to say them in Hebrew
> which is the language I have to lecture in here.
> I think they are great not only for mothers, but medical professionals
> who insist on bottling the breast!! tell us more!!
> anyone got any more? I am getting sick of hearing myself give the same
> lecture every day!!
>
> Esther Grunis, IBCLC
> still not allowed to go to work. do you think the AIM lady sprayed virus
> into my eyes?
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