This is from my daughter who just started nursing school in Israel. Her
goal is nurse-midwifery. I wish I had words of wisdom for her. Can
anyone in Israel send some reassuring thoughts her way?
Sarah
Sarah Friend Barnett LLLL, IBCLC
Bronx (New York City), NY - [log in to unmask]
" You are not obliged to finish the task,
neither are you free to neglect it." R. Tarfon
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I'm a freak. An anomoly of nature. Either I'm right or everyone else is
wrong.
What am I talking about? We had a lesson that included (unfortunately)
some advice about nursing. Breastfeeding-nursing that is, not
nursing-nursing (gee, this will get confusing won't it). AND, even though
the GENERAL conclusion is that breastfeeding is advised, there are still
"negatives" brought up and all sorts of what seem to me, as crazy advice
as to the "NECESSITY OF SUPPLEMENTS." I need to know what is true and
what is false, 'cause it sure seems to me that the ministry of health here
(if reported accurately) is trying to poison all its infants and instead
of simply reporting the most logical and natural advice, which is to NURSE
YOUR BABY, they believe that additives such as vitamins A, D and C (in the
form of mashed fruit) should be added at 1 month! Not to mention iron,
protein and vegetables, also staring at ridiculously young ages.
I'm sort of seething, because even nursing proponents and supporters, as
my teacher claimed to be, don't know about improved cognitive skills,
lowered incidences of leukemia etc etc etc.
What to do? How do you convince an enitre world, when even the health
professionals don't really know what they are talking about. How then, do
you even get into ethical issues (and yes, I'm a wee-bit biased) of if a
woman is not prepared to feed her baby, then why is she having one????
I hate being a weirdo, fanatic and (yes) self-righteous about these
beliefs which I'm convinced are true. Why is everyone else so blind? Why
don't we go back to the '50's when formula had to be measured? Why should
we attempt to be natural with Lamaze, lack of episiotemies and
C-sections, if all we then do is harm our babies' precious developing
immune/digestive systems with unnatural poison (what were all those
wonderful, if not slightly vulgar, names that e-mail came up with for
formula?)
Yes, you can send this to your friends and have them write back, as long
as they know a teeny bit about me so _they_ too don't think I'm a freak.
Love,
your breastfed, best-fed daughter who didn't bother to wean until
she was four (YES, FOUR) years old
p.s. can you send me some of those articiles, preferably the scientific
ones, about cognitive development, increased IQ and nursing and some
others like that?
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