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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP from the last post here.

Also don't even get me started on the shitty advice we received from the lactation consultants that caused my newborn to lose 9% of his birth weight by the time we left the hospital. We later found out that he wasn't able to latch on well and was receiving basically no breast milk from me. I feel very lucky the pediatrician caught this problem before we left the hospital and we did not continue to starve the baby. I swear people scoff at fed is best but lactation consultants are only interested in breastfeeding, they could get a shit about the health of the mother OR the baby, [b]their sole goal seems to be to get everyone to breastfeed at the expense of everything else.[/b] [/quote]
This is actually true to some extent. The ACA rewards hospitals for the percentage of babies who are EBF upon discharge, which I think does skew incentives. My mom is a neonatologist who has "prescribed" formula for dehydrated infants a couple times, and her hospital now conducts a review every time a pediatrician orders formula. She has told me she's had mothers beg her to order formula for their babies, because they are killing themselves trying to BF before their milk has come in.

I do not in any way endorse the ACHA, but I think repealing or revising the over-the-top BF promotion in the ACA would be a very good thing.[/quote]

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