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Subject: Breastfeeding after exercise
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I read your note in the St. Paul Pioneer Press of January 28, 1998
regarding nursing after exercise. Even if it is true that some
protective proteins decrease in the milk after exercise, so what? This
is a temporary situation only, and the key word is "decrease", not
"disappear". The alternative (infant formula) does not have *any*
protective proteins and nobody ever mentions that in health news or any
other articles. To imply, as you have done, that breastmilk produced
after exercise is somehow "bad" for the baby is taking a huge,
unjustified, leap.
Most women know that breastfeeding is better for them and for their
babies. So why do so many in the United States not breastfeed? Because
they have the mistaken idea, reinforced all the time by the media, in
formula company "information" booklets, by uninformed health
professionals, that breastfeeding is inconvenient and difficult. Many
have the wrong impression that if you breastfeed you cannot have a
drink, cannot smoke a cigarette, cannot take something for a headache,
cannot eat all sorts of foods, cannot go out, cannot live, in short.
Your little article adds to that feeling of entrapment that so many
women unnecessarily experience when breastfeeding.
Yours truly,
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
Director, breastfeeding clinics,
Toronto, Canada
Daytime phone (voice mail): (416) 813-5757 (option 3)
Evening phone: (416) 766-6501