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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Remembering Christopher
MIL is blaming me (and bfing) for Michael's eczema
MIL watched the boys for me today so I could go to the hospital to be with DH, which
I am grateful for. When I went to pick them up we were chit-chatting.
Michael was sitting on my lap and I was trying to look behind his ears
where his eczema is the worst. He pulled away from me like he usually
does when I try to check and I said something like, "I'm sorry Mommy
gave you that stuff" (I also have eczema and behind my ears was always
the worst growing up.
MIL pipes up to say that she read an article that was *interesting*. It said kids who were bfed longer than a year are more likely to suffer from eczema. So you know, it's not only my genes that are making Michael suffer, but my parenting choices as well.
MIL pipes up to say that she read an article that was *interesting*. It said kids who were bfed longer than a year are more likely to suffer from eczema. So you know, it's not only my genes that are making Michael suffer, but my parenting choices as well.
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Re: MIL is blaming me (and bfing) for Michael's eczema
I thought kids who were BF that long were less likely to have it. Jack has it but pretty mild.
Weird, and none of her business.
Did you read my FB status about this yesterday??? Below:
The problem with living in the so-called "information age" is that everything you hear comes from one gigantic game of telephone. Case in point: My dad tells me that he heard, "Breastfeeding longer than six months causes eczema." A little research turns up the attached study which was performed on 321 infants, ALL of w...hom were born to mothers with a "history of asthma." The study showed that 55% of said babies developed eczema before age 2. However, "Because all of the mothers in the study had a history of asthma, the findings cannot be generalized to other women." Yet look at the title of the article - misleading at best, inflammatory at worst. You know those looking to add a little drama to their newcast (certain cable "news" station, I'm looking at you) won't read past the title to get the real facts. Le sigh.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P38T20100326
What? She's cuckoo! My DS had (and still has) eczema when he was really little. So, what's her explanation for that? Oh yeah, and I didn't bf past a year.
Just shrug her off. I know it's tough and it sucks, but she doesn't know what she's talking about!
lol RR - I didn't read that.
I just said to her that my niece has it really bad (she was ff from birth) and it just runs in my family. I'm just surprised because it was the first really negative thing she has said about my bfing. I'm the odd duck in the family though, she ff all of her kids and all of my sil's ffed their kids.
My nephews were all formula fed and the one has the worst eczema I have ever seen. It's all over his legs and looks almost like burns. So tell your MIL to stick it :-)
Is eczema hereditary? My daughter used to have it around her mouth, but my husband and I do not have it. Since we switched to Dove Sensitive skin soap she hasn't had a breakout it months.
this. this is what i've ALWAYS read and always told by the pedi. definitely NONE OF HER BUSINESS.
y'know, i think that Liam Neeson is getting old. Plus, i think he's not throwing any throatpunches in clash of the titans. i mean, that hair does not lend to throatpunching.
and thus, for your MIL, i shall send.....
sayid jarrah. he'll cut a b1tch.
Oh FFS, she's insane.
DH has eczema all over him and DD has small patches of it behind her ears.
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(in memory of a sweet baby boy)
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