This month's issue of Babytalk

Re: This month's issue of Babytalk

• kaylaaimee

  July 2011

  yeah i thought the EL was a bit, hmmm, simplistic?
  

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• ShannonSky member

  July 2011

  Ha! I was going to post about this as well. I didn't read the letter, but did read the article and it seemed to miss some points. Like I remember they said something about how important it was to BF preemies, but never acknowleged how difficult that is (which is odd, considering they even mentioned something about not being able to hold the baby - how do you BF a baby you can't hold???). It seems as though it was written from the POV of trying to prepare a pregnant mom just in case she needs the NICU, so maybe they were trying not to scare people off. But still, I didn't think it was helpful at all.

  

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• urbanflowerpot

  July 2011

  What's kind of funny (in our case) is that DS latched perfectly while the LC was starting to teach us what to do. We had an LOL moment, but then the next three months, three weeks, and one day were a EP to EBF nightmare. Nipple confusion, crying from stress, exhaustion, etc, etc. I remember a nurse explaining to me on day one that I may never BF...and that's just how it was. You can't be there all the time and yeah PP if you can't hold your baby, how can you BF? and any mom who opted for formula because they were stressed out, well, that's totally understandable.

  So yeah, I can see it being an all right primer for pg women, though if they were anything like me they'd skim the article and think, 'well, I'm not having a preemie...'

  Oh, and the part about how you should kiss your nurses' tooshies so you can get a cradle by the window was a nice touch, I thought.

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