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Doctors are usually learned people who have a lot of helpful (and often lifesaving) advice. But the fact is, being a doctor doesn't make you an expert in nutri
by wmboy 14y ago
Doctors are usually learned people who have a lot of helpful (and often lifesaving) advice.
But the fact is, being a doctor doesn't make you an expert in nutrition or diet, and it certainly doesn't make you an expert in things like co-sleeping.
I'm pretty sure the only deaths you'll have these days as a result of co-sleeping is when one of the parents smoked, took drugs or was obese (and usually a combination).
- antirez 14y agoI agree with what you say, but in my experience here in Sicily, I'm sure there is also a good percentage of bad faith. In the hospital where Greta (my daughter) was born, and later in doctors waiting rooms, I saw a lot of mothers actively discouraged to breastfeed their children in a way or the other. Because co-sleeping is a very important factor in the success rate of breastfeeding I wonder if there is also some connection with many doctors discouraging it. I know this looks odd but I know first-hand people working inside the hospital and I got internal acknowledges about the fact that hospitals received pressurs in the context of breastfeeding once they started to encourage it too broadly. Artificial milk is a 50$/week tax they are able to get from most newborns for months.
- jbp 14y agoThats surprising, here in US, atleast at Kaiser hopital highly recommend breast feeding, and they offer lots of free support/classes. And surprisingly they don't recommend cosleeping.
- wmboy 14y agoHmm perhaps I'm just a cynic, but if health care providers are coming out with such garbage as discouraging breast feeding, it's got to make you wonder whether they want people to be sicker!