The Importance of Warmth for your Baby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Male obstetricians have kept women down (literally!) for far too long. When she wants to get up and walk down the hall, who are you to say she can't? When she needs her mother or girlfriend there, who are you to say she can't? When she wants to hold her baby, who are you to say "not yet"?

You doctors seem to believe her baby's birth is all about you. It ain't. You got it backwards. You take orders from her. She's in charge of her own body. Not you.

?? In my hospital birth, they had telemetry monitors so I could walk around freely (until I requested an received a blissful epidural!), could have anyone I wanted in the room, and they handed me my baby right away. Do you think this is 1962?

You know, you would think this is a rhetorical question, but …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Male obstetricians have kept women down (literally!) for far too long. When she wants to get up and walk down the hall, who are you to say she can't? When she needs her mother or girlfriend there, who are you to say she can't? When she wants to hold her baby, who are you to say "not yet"?

You doctors seem to believe her baby's birth is all about you. It ain't. You got it backwards. You take orders from her. She's in charge of her own body. Not you.

?? In my hospital birth, they had telemetry monitors so I could walk around freely (until I requested an received a blissful epidural!), could have anyone I wanted in the room, and they handed me my baby right away. Do you think this is 1962?

Which hospital?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Male obstetricians have kept women down (literally!) for far too long. When she wants to get up and walk down the hall, who are you to say she can't? When she needs her mother or girlfriend there, who are you to say she can't? When she wants to hold her baby, who are you to say "not yet"?

You doctors seem to believe her baby's birth is all about you. It ain't. You got it backwards. You take orders from her. She's in charge of her own body. Not you.

?? In my hospital birth, they had telemetry monitors so I could walk around freely (until I requested an received a blissful epidural!), could have anyone I wanted in the room, and they handed me my baby right away. Do you think this is 1962?

Which hospital?

GW. And I really don't think it's out of the ordinary for any DC-area hospital. Do you really think it's unusual to be able to have your MOTHER in L&D? Or to be able to hold your baby immediately after birth? Or to be able to walk around during labor (assuming you don't have to be monitored)? Maybe there are some hospitals around here that require continuous, in-the-bed fetal monitoring for low-risk unmedicated pregnancies, but I don't think that's really the practice.

[Anonymous]

Why
are
you
all
feeding
this
troll
?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Male obstetricians have kept women down (literally!) for far too long. When she wants to get up and walk down the hall, who are you to say she can't? When she needs her mother or girlfriend there, who are you to say she can't? When she wants to hold her baby, who are you to say "not yet"?

You doctors seem to believe her baby's birth is all about you. It ain't. You got it backwards. You take orders from her. She's in charge of her own body. Not you.

?? In my hospital birth, they had telemetry monitors so I could walk around freely (until I requested an received a blissful epidural!), could have anyone I wanted in the room, and they handed me my baby right away. Do you think this is 1962?

Which hospital?

GW. And I really don't think it's out of the ordinary for any DC-area hospital. Do you really think it's unusual to be able to have your MOTHER in L&D? Or to be able to hold your baby immediately after birth? Or to be able to walk around during labor (assuming you don't have to be monitored)? Maybe there are some hospitals around here that require continuous, in-the-bed fetal monitoring for low-risk unmedicated pregnancies, but I don't think that's really the practice.

Thank you. This is great to know about GW. People are frequently asking about different hospitals on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why
are
you
all
feeding
this
troll
?

I actually don't think it's a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD drank cold formula straight from a pitcher in the fridge from 6 weeks on and was the best sleeper of any of my friends/family.

Same.

Excellent! No worries for you!
Everyone here fully supports each parent to determine what's best for their own baby. Discussion is a wonderful thing.

No. Some parents made stupid decisions. And some try to force heir stupid ideas on others. Let’s not pretend that all decisions are the same.

Again, you have every right to feed your children however you think is best for them. Now, repeat.

DP

Not the same thing as having the right to tell other women what they are doing is bad for their babies, without being challenged -- especially if you don't have evidence to back up your opinion.

Perhaps for some parents it's a matter of learning what we can do to help ease the challenge of helping your baby get solid sleep at night. One sees on this site almost constant worries about baby's sleep patterns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD drank cold formula straight from a pitcher in the fridge from 6 weeks on and was the best sleeper of any of my friends/family.

Same.

Excellent! No worries for you!
Everyone here fully supports each parent to determine what's best for their own baby. Discussion is a wonderful thing.

No. Some parents made stupid decisions. And some try to force heir stupid ideas on others. Let’s not pretend that all decisions are the same.

Again, you have every right to feed your children however you think is best for them. Now, repeat.

DP

Not the same thing as having the right to tell other women what they are doing is bad for their babies, without being challenged -- especially if you don't have evidence to back up your opinion.

Perhaps for some parents it's a matter of learning what we can do to help ease the challenge of helping your baby get solid sleep at night. One sees on this site almost constant worries about baby's sleep patterns.

If that were the intent, it would be presented as an option that works for some people, not as the best way to do it "for all baby tummies."

[Anonymous]

Some babies can get constipated from cold formula.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some babies can get constipated from cold formula.

[Citation needed.]

[Anonymous]

The idea that no mother can do wrong is so ridiculous

Many mothers are stupid and make stupid choices out of pure ignorance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some babies can get constipated from cold formula.

No they do not. At least not because it is cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The idea that no mother can do wrong is so ridiculous

Many mothers are stupid and make stupid choices out of pure ignorance

So it's a good thing that nobody has advocated this idea! Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If that were the intent, it would be presented as an option that works for some people, not as the best way to do it "for all baby tummies."

I mean, "baby tummies", right? How could you possibly do anything as awful to your poor little baby's poor little tummy as put unloving, room-temperature formula into it, let alone cold, hateful, refrigerated formula (probably given by refrigerator mothers)?!?!?!

(I am not being sincere.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some babies can get constipated from cold formula.

No they do not. At least not because it is cold.

Please list what you believe are the possible causes of constipation in a cold formula fed baby.