Two days ago we explained some of the criticisms or phrases with little information that nurses told the 155 mothers of the prolonged breastfeeding survey. Today we continue with this topic to continue knowing what nurses can say about prolonged breastfeeding.
“The girl does not know how to breastfeed because she is so small. Bottle feed him to get used to him ”
The nurse's comment is divided into two sentences, one that serves as an informative introduction (“she doesn't know how to breastfeed because she is small”) and another that is the advice that solves the first one (“bottle feed”).
The fact is that neither the first nor the second one is saved (because if at least I had said that she does not know how to breastfeed as a child, but “she continues to breastfeed on demand” there would not be so much trouble), so let's go by parts.
Babies are born knowing how to breastfeed because they have the so-called sucking reflex. Notice if they know how to breastfeed that if we leave babies on their mothers as soon as they are born, they are able to crawl to the chest and catch themselves without anyone intervening.
Now, it is true that there are larger and smaller babies and it could be thought that smaller babies may not be able to breastfeed, however there is some history of premature babies weighing approximately 1 kg that have been well taken to the breast .
A healthy newborn, even if she is small, will be well taken if she is given the opportunity (If someone puts a pacifier on him or gives him a bottle, he may confuse it. Then he will not know how to breastfeed because he is confused between the nipple and the nipple, but not because he is small).
Then the nurse says that, as it seems that she is not breastfeeding, she is given a bottle to get used to. I say that before giving a bottle, we all know that it always works, all options must be exhausted in order to breastfeed the girl. There will be time to give you a bottle (or not) when you are older.
"Give water and infusions so you don't get dehydrated"
This was told by a nurse to the mother of a four-month-old baby. This is not a long-term breastfeeding, but as you can see it does not have to be to receive erroneous information.
Breast milk contains about 80-85% water. It is impossible for a healthy baby to become dehydrated if she is drinking breast milk, so exclusive breast milk is recommended up to six months without giving them water or infusions. After six months, things change, since when they start eating foods that make them thirsty, babies may want to drink some water and can offer them.
"Give it water so that it only relates the tit with eating"
This phrase was told to the mother of a three month old baby. The comments are closely linked to the previous sentence. Water is not necessary and can even be counterproductive if it is given before six months (if the stomach is filled with water, which does not feed, there is no room for breast milk).
This nurse also recommends that the breast be only food and not drink. Curious if we consider that it is liquid and that, as I say, it contains a lot of water. Absurd if we consider that babies do not differentiate drinking food.
“If you have not prepared the nipples to breastfeed you will not be able to do it”
Of course, and if you do not prepare the vagina to give birth you will not be able to do it and if at birth you do not prepare the baby's mouth to breastfeed, you will not be able to do it, and if ...
The nipples are, curiously, very different from the rest of the skin of the chest, perhaps they are so because nature has thought that they will be more adapted to be sucked and sucked, which seems quite logical.
Obviously, you can breastfeed without even looking at your nipples. It is not necessary to touch them, take them out, prepare them, pinch them or anything like them because the nipples, the woman's breast and her mammary glands are prepared to produce and take out the milk when the baby sucks.
I hope that few mothers create this phrase, but I already imagine dozens of mothers lamenting that they had not prepared the nipples during pregnancy (“I didn't do it because nobody had told me anything, what a pity!”).
"He's teasing you when he asks for a tit, mark him schedules"
This was told by a nurse to the mother of a five-month-old baby. It can also be divided into two, the part that says the baby teases and the part that suggests marking schedules.
Babies do not tease. Babies ask for what they need when they need it. The day a five-month-old baby cries to ask for the breast, his mother comes and he laughs when he has the tit in front of his mouth will be teasing his mother. If he does it again, it will be confirmed that he is joking, however, as no baby does this, but he groans or cries to breastfeed and breast when he has his chest before him, it makes no sense to talk about teasing or assumptions cheating on babies
With regard to schedules, you all know that the tit has no schedule, which is given on demand, so if a baby asks often it is because he needs to eat often. No more no less.
With this phrase I pause a moment to make a reflection. To say that a baby teases and to suggest feeding him wrongly is a total nonsense without scientific foundation. By this I mean that many nurses (and many professionals), bad that I feel sorry, since I am a nurse, they give the advice they feel like or that they have heard around, being often totally wrong.
Your daughter what she has is vice
Corroborating what I just said, a nurse told the mother of a six-month-old girl that what she had was vice. If the mother had said that she takes a bottle at all hours the nurse would have said that "it is good that she feeds so well," however If what he gives is a tit at all hours, the food becomes vice.
Obviously there is no science here, but a value judgment that could have saved it, more than anything out of respect.
Stay hungry, bottle feed
Twelve hours of life was the mother's baby to whom a nurse released this pearl. Twelve hours is all the time that baby was left to start eating. Twelve hours and your chance is over.
The first days the breast produces colostrum, a very caloric and nutritious yellowish substance that is enough to feed a baby a few days. If it were not enough, the human species would have been changing so that women could produce more milk or for babies to be born in need of less food, however this has not happened, so if a twelve-hour baby is left hungry, " Give her more tit, woman. ”
"The tit is fine if there is milk, but you don't have it anymore"
Again, as a few days ago, a quick diagnosis: "you no longer have". While the child is there, there will be milk, whether one year, two, three, seven, ten or thirty.
To be continue
I already said the other day that nurses had offered more variability, more wrong phrases and more criticism. That is why a third entry is still pending to talk about it. You will have it soon.
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