I am feeling a little prickly about this, so please forgive me if I am
coming across too strongly. I am not intending this as a flame :)
Rachel Myr quoted Magda Sachs' earlier post
>".....The baby also gets to suck on a few drops of wine as part of the
ceremony when it is over, which often seems to help them sleep a bit.....
This means that the baby has ended then, if not before, the period of
exclusive breastfeeding."
and commented:
> think it means merely that the baby has tasted something other than
breast
milk for the first time, comparable to a baby who may be given
paracetamol
syrup following casting for club feet, when acute pain is at its height.
I
don't think Jewish boy babies who are ritually subjected to an off topic
procedure continue to get drops of wine at regular intervals from that
moment on. Conjecture on my part, I admit, and I stand prepared to be
corrected by those in the know.
Really! Thank you Rachel!
I always thought of my son as being exclusively bf till he started solids
at 5.5 months. It never occurred to me count the 2 or 3 drops on wine he
got at his bris (circ) any more than counting the tylenol he got after a
particularly bothersome innoculation. He certainly did NOT get a regular
ration of wine (laughing here!) unless you count the occaisional glass
that I drank.
Magda wrote:
>This means that the baby has ended then, if not before, the period of
exclusive breastfeeding. I wonder if this would provide an interesting
population of boys, who have had mixed feeding at 8 days or so, with the
girls from the same community who might continue exclusive bf longer? Of
course, dividing a study 'subjects' by gender might throw in some other
confounders, but it seems an interesting 'natural' opportunity.
(Assuming
anyone in this population DOES breastfeed exclusively, of course.)
I am not sure why you would assume that anyone in *this population*
DIDN'T breastfeed exclusively. Why make ANY assumptions?
I always thought of *mixed feedings* as being breastfeeding plus solids.
A one-time only ritual drop of sweet wine in not my idea of a meal :)
Coming down from my soapbox now.... feeling a bit wobbly...maybe I need
a glass of something myself...
Norma Ritter, IBCLC
private practice in Big Flats, NY
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