I hope you all don't mind but I really needed to vent about a conversation
that I had last night.
Went to a "girls night out" with neighborhood women, 12 of us. We were
sitting around eating dinner when one other woman, Mom of a 8 mth old only
child, began discussing the fact that her daughter is sick yet again, how she
picks up everything from her daycare (she was never breastfed) and that she
guesses "she should be glad because this will probably mean (supposedly
according to her pedi) that by the time the baby gets to school age, she will
be immune to everything." The other women all seemed to think this was a good
point so I felt the need to chime in with my 2 cents (pretending to be
entirely sure of it, but really not!)  that in fact that babies aren't meant
to be exposed to so many sources of infection at such a young age, that their
immune systems don't mature for years explaining that they recieve immunities
from Mom while pregnant and Mom's milk ,IF nursed but that this baby would be
more susceptible. I went on to explain that all of this infection could be
delaying this babe's G&D and may even negatively impact this babe's long term
immune status (shaky ground?)  I then went on to say something like, "its a
good thing that this warehousing of babies wasn't taking place before the
advent of antibiotics because if so we'd probably have the highest infant
mortality rate in the world"
I WAS on a bit of a tear, I know, but what do you all think, how far off was
I?
It was definitely one of those moments where you feel like a visitor to your
own planet.
Lynn Shea Rn,Bsn,Ibclc
Franklin,Massachusetts

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