Lactnetters,
    OK, I'm frustrated,...again.  I wrote an edition of my "Keeping
A'Breast", a little teaching idea of mine for posting in the BR at the
hospital here where I work(that's the best reading place for nurses!!).
This month it's on "What I tell moms who ask, (and sometimes I just tell the
info) about pacifiers and bottles."  Well, you can guess what I said...Along
side of my article comes the rebutal.  Baby Talk Magazine with an article
about how 5% of mothers can't breastfeed and supply their baby's with
complete nutrition and that many mothers for this and because "it's just too
tough"(my interpretation) have to both breast and bottle feed.  Sprinkled
thru the article are quotes from Marianne Neifert, M.D.that suppport this
authors ideas about how mothers need to supplement and it's just too tough
for some mothers to breastfeed full time.  AHHH!   Well, that's all some of
these nursery nurses need to delete my ideas from their thoughts.  "A doctor
says", said one of them.  "There is no such thing as nipple confusion!"
    I when to my file and pulled out Marianne Niefert's article on
"Contemporary Breastfeeding Management" and found that, as I thought, many
of the quotes are out of context.  Now why does she allow that?  Does anyone
have any thoughts about this.  And why does it appear in a magazine that my
hospital gives out to all moms in a gift pack??? (I'm screaming!!)
    Does anyone have her address?  I'll write to her and ask?
                 Betsy Wells-Gephart RN, IBCLC
                 Chandler, AZ

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