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frualeydisMaja is having a slight temperature and her left leg is a bit swollen due to a shot she got yesterday. She was also a little cranky yesterday and cried a lot compared to what she normally does (not at all). Hopefully she will be better tomorrow.
I got quite upset when we went to the doctor's yesterday. Apparently her growth curve has flattened out (she's still a big baby though, 69 cm and 7945 grams) and the doctor apparently saw breastfeeding as the source of this "problem". Well, in a way it is, because those curves are based on statistics from my generation , the generation who got nursed the shortest time (if at all) in swedish history and are therefore not totally relevant for babies who are breastfed. But instead of acknowledging this they make it a problem when breastfed babies follow the weight development that is natural and not the one you get from giving them "välling" (a cereal based thick liquid, tastes quite good if you like the sweet whole grain taste). Maja also only eats one meal "normal food" and she's really only on the try-out stage, which means that she eats food more the get into the habit and like of it than to provide nourishment. This apparently also was a problem, she really should eat two meals of "grown-up food" every day, otherwise she wouldn't get enough nourishment, according to the doctor. I actually had to put down my foot and point out that the WHO recommendation on breastfeeding is that babies should eat _only_ breast milk the first six months and then you should slowly introduce solids while still breastfeeding for at least two years (because of my arthritis it will probably only be one year). So by trying to give me guilt trips about breastfeeding Maja too much (she thought Maja had to much milk) she is actually breaking those recommendations, which are also ratified by the swedish health department (or whatever it's called).
The nurse also suggested, when I explained that the reason we had already introduced some solids was that Maja was so interested in what we ate, that the reason was that Maja was hungry, that she didn't get full enough from milk only. Excuse me! If a four months old baby shows interest in what her parents are eating it is out of curiosity, not of hunger, because she doesn't connect feeling full and content with solid food but with mother's milk. To her it is not clear that mummy's breasts and mashed potatoes belong in the same category.
Well, I'm going to do what I know is best anyway, but it annoys me. And if I hadn't read so much on the subject I might have been persuaded to diminish the nursing, to Maja's loss.
I got quite upset when we went to the doctor's yesterday. Apparently her growth curve has flattened out (she's still a big baby though, 69 cm and 7945 grams) and the doctor apparently saw breastfeeding as the source of this "problem". Well, in a way it is, because those curves are based on statistics from my generation , the generation who got nursed the shortest time (if at all) in swedish history and are therefore not totally relevant for babies who are breastfed. But instead of acknowledging this they make it a problem when breastfed babies follow the weight development that is natural and not the one you get from giving them "välling" (a cereal based thick liquid, tastes quite good if you like the sweet whole grain taste). Maja also only eats one meal "normal food" and she's really only on the try-out stage, which means that she eats food more the get into the habit and like of it than to provide nourishment. This apparently also was a problem, she really should eat two meals of "grown-up food" every day, otherwise she wouldn't get enough nourishment, according to the doctor. I actually had to put down my foot and point out that the WHO recommendation on breastfeeding is that babies should eat _only_ breast milk the first six months and then you should slowly introduce solids while still breastfeeding for at least two years (because of my arthritis it will probably only be one year). So by trying to give me guilt trips about breastfeeding Maja too much (she thought Maja had to much milk) she is actually breaking those recommendations, which are also ratified by the swedish health department (or whatever it's called).
The nurse also suggested, when I explained that the reason we had already introduced some solids was that Maja was so interested in what we ate, that the reason was that Maja was hungry, that she didn't get full enough from milk only. Excuse me! If a four months old baby shows interest in what her parents are eating it is out of curiosity, not of hunger, because she doesn't connect feeling full and content with solid food but with mother's milk. To her it is not clear that mummy's breasts and mashed potatoes belong in the same category.
Well, I'm going to do what I know is best anyway, but it annoys me. And if I hadn't read so much on the subject I might have been persuaded to diminish the nursing, to Maja's loss.
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Date: 2004-11-10 03:52 pm (UTC)Much like when a woman on a plastic surgery show said she'd rather have the scars of her breast enlargement around the nipple than under the breast. Because breastfeeding isn't that big a deal basically.
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There is so much ignorance about breast vs formula..... it's not about choice, it's about the health of the baby! That said if there are strong medical reasons a mother can't breastfeed (like for my mum when she had me) she shouldn't be made to feel guilty, but that's a different argument altogether.
Good on you for sticking to your guns.