Sorry, I didn't catch the beginning of this thread, but feel compelled to
offer my take on this.

Dr. Schanler has done some very impressive work, as have many others. The
question of who conducted the study, or their credentials, is not the main
question here. The main question is, how good was the study? That's what
should "convince" us of the study's value.

If you're looking at the "work" and the oxygen consumption in preterms, you
might want to have a look at the work of J. Blaymore, (later,
Blaymore-Byer), in addition to those mentioned.



>And why would Dr. Schanler's work be more convincing than Paula Meier's, eh?
>Because he's a doctor?  Because he's a neonatologist, rather than someone
>who has studied breastfeeding nuts and bolts for years??? (I know Dr. S.
>also has published about breastfeeding, but I am willing to bet he doesn't
>get in there and do hands on).  And what would the neonatologist at your
>hospital know about it?  Where are his studies to show that breastfeeding is
>more tiring than bottle feeding for a premature?  Anyone who has ever
>watched a baby breastfeeding well will know that that's not true.  But
>chances are this one never watches.  Are his "opinions" more valuable than
>yours?  They aren't.
>
>I'm sick of this attitude on physicians' parts (okay, *some* physicians'
>parts).  Do they question it when an occupational therapist says this baby
>needs this or that to get him to feed better?  No they don't, because they
>know they know booh all about what occupational therapists do, actually.
>But when a breastfeeding specialist says the baby needs this or this to feed
>better at the breast, "bring me studies to show that what is patently
>obvious to the most casual of observers is true".  Like... hellllooooo!
>
>Sorry, the heat is getting me down.
>
>Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC


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