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    If you go to a hospital get ready to YELL

    LibraSunCNM replied to BSN16's topic in General Nursing

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    If you go to a hospital get ready to YELL

    LibraSunCNM replied to BSN16's topic in General Nursing

    He expected his mother to LIVE at the hospital for a week at his father's
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not trying to belabor this or be overly argumentative, but I just want to point out that research never proves anything, all it can do is point out links and correlations that its data suggest....
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I was definitely glad that I had years of experience in women's health before I had my baby, and was much better prepared for what to expect in the first few weeks of breastfeeding. It is really a...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I think the current thinking with pacifiers has less to do with "nipple confusion" (which has been debunked, by the way) and more to do with the fact that, in the early days and weeks of breastfeeding...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, I'm really surprised at some people's comments, including those of the OP, that they were discouraged from pumping by some LCs. As you said, the best pump is the baby, and hand expression,...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I hadn't, thank you for it. I still maintain that there is strong evidence supporting breastfeeding's relationship to a decrease in SIDS, but agree that more research needs to be done, while...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I actually posted the wrong link! I agree with you that this study seems inconclusive, although when talking about SIDS I don't think we're really talking about something IN breastmilk that...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    See my source above for reasons why they think breastfeeding may reduce the risk of SIDS. It's actually pretty interesting. No, I do not need a picture of your skinny son to try to convince me that...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm getting my sources from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and peer-reviewed publications like Pediatrics, Obestetrics & Gynecology, and The Lancet. Where are...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Really? You don't believe that formula carries risks? In addition to the risks I already listed that can occur with contamination, which, as I stated, has happened here in the U.S., not just third...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I think this is a very important point. I can see how the most innocently intended comment could be construed as judgment when something you really wanted to do for your baby isn't working and you're...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    All of this,
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that, in general, a free market means that companies can market as they please. However, in the specific case of infant formula, the U.S. could choose to adopt the International Code of...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Honest opinion? I think she, for what reason I cannot say, has a real beef against breastfeeding and is twisting some research to try to blame the BFHI for stuff it's not responsible for. She states...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I forgot to add to my previous post that my point in bringing up babies harmed by contaminated formula, which I probably didn't make clear, is that starvation isn't the only way a baby can be harmed...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I certainly don't feel like everyone has to agree with me! I would love to keep this discussion going (I admit I have a hard time deciphering tone on the internet sometimes). I just felt like I was...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Starving to death, OK, I get your point and thank you for clarifying. I don't think that infants are starving to death as a result of exclusive breastfeeding at quite the rate that this thread would...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Just to clarify, I'm not a lactation consultant, but a former Mother/Baby nurse and now a CNM, and a new mom who is breastfeeding. I wasn't saying that anyone posting here was undermining...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Again, I think it's terrible that there are lactation consultants who are bullying women at the expense of their babies' health. I just haven't personally met one. Of course, for a lot of...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    LibraSunCNM replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so sorry that you and your wife had this experience. It sounds like you got really subpar care in the breastfeeding department. I often read stories of judgmental lactation consultants who bully...
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    Future OB/Gyn RN needs some advice from seasoned L & D nurses

    LibraSunCNM replied to doularn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I personally think a direct-entry MSN for a new nurse aiming to work in a regular staff position is a waste of time and money. A BSN is perfectly fine. I feel that a master's in nursing with no...
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    Trying to have a baby in flyover country

    LibraSunCNM replied to RiskManager's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting that they focus on Alabama, which is possibly the most midwife-UNfriendly state in the U.S., lament the lack of providers there, and then only mention with one sentence that increasing the...
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    getting hired in a hospital with an associates degree?

    LibraSunCNM replied to chrisRN180's topic in General Nursing

    As a Florida native I can tell you it is a fairly nurse-unfriendly, actually generally worker-unfriendly state. The governor is a former CEO for the HCA hospital chain, if that clues you in at all to...
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    What was the REAL reason you called off

    LibraSunCNM replied to Orion81RN's topic in General Nursing

    I, too, called out once because I hadn't slept a wink the night before. I was working part-time and in graduate school full-time and I don't even remember now what was keeping me up, but I felt...