Are we failing breast-feeding moms?
(TIME. com) -- The doctor blamed it on the baby. "She's not absorbing your milk," he told Colleen Kelly in the days after he daughter was born, as the baby lost too much weight and cried constantly. Lactation consultants said, "She's not latching properly." Kelly drove through rural Maine for hours to attend breast-feeding support groups and La Leche League meetings, yet the baby went from eight to six pounds and was diagnosed as "failure to thrive." The baby's kidneys were x-rayed and blood taken, but doctors found nothing wrong. Not once in her travels did someone suggest that perhaps the problem was Kelly herself, rather than her baby or her ability to latch on. She told doctors that her mother hadn't been able to produce enough breast milk -- could that be happening to her? No, they said. That was an old wives' tale.
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Colleen Kelly
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| 0.187868 | "It was clear that none of the doctors or nurses knew enough about breast-feeding to figure out what was happening," Kelly says. ... |
| -0.0860013 | her what many women with lactation failure have been told before: "We've never seen this before. You're the only one." |
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Dr. Todd Wolynn
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| 0 | "It's an hour, or a half a day, and (students) don't remember anything," says Dr. Todd Wolynn, ... |
| 0.547627 | "It's probably the most promising times we've seen," says Wolynn. |
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Dr. Alison Stuebe
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| 0.0379079 | "We just give women a pat on the head and tell them their kids will be fine," if they don't breastfeed, says Dr. Alison Stuebe, ... |
| -0.0312638 | "We just give women a pat on the head and tell them their kids will be fine," if they don't breastfeed, says Dr. Alison Stuebe, an OB who treats breast-feeding problems in North Carolina. "Can you imagine if we did that to men with erectile dysfunction?" |
| 0 | "When most of the people who are currently leaders were in training, breast-feeding was really uncommon," says Stuebe. |
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Dr. Amy Evans
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| 0.0714849 | "We're in the early phases of what I'm hoping in the next five to 10 years will be more appreciated and more considered a real subspecialty," says Evans. |
| 0.116748 | "We're in the early phases of what I'm hoping in the next five to 10 years will be more appreciated and more considered a real subspecialty," says Evans. "It's a whole new area of medicine." |
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Dr. Marianne Neifert
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| 0 | Dr. Marianne Neifert writes in her article, Prevention of Breastfeeding Tragedies, "The bold claims made about the infallibility of lactation are not cited about any other physiologic processes. A health care professional would never tell a diabetic woman that 'every pancreas can make insulin' or insist to a devastated infertility patient that 'every woman can get pregnant.'" |
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No one argues that breast is best, but the truth is that breast-feeding is very difficult for many women, and for some, medical problems make it almost impossible without intervention. It's important that the medical community have the tools and knowledge to help mothers breastfeed -- or to figure out why they can't.
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