In Babies and more We have already shown you several short videos of Carlos Gonzalez Explaining a specific topic. As we find interesting, both for his way of seeing things and for what he usually comments, today we bring you a new video in which Talk about the weight of newborns.
I consider myself a defender of breastfeeding as the ideal food for babies and advocate of providing the maximum possible help, provided that the mother wishes to receive it, so that breastfeeding ends up being successful. This way of proceeding, which seems the most logical coming from a healthcare professional, has cost me more than a headache and more than an argument with co-workers who, apparently, do not have so many views when recommending a formula milk supplement when things seem not to go well.
I still remember the day when a pediatrician approached me and said something like "look at breast milk fans, yesterday a girl entered the hospital with clear signs of malnutrition because she didn't have enough with breast milk."
Faced with this provocation (because he told me with double intention) I could only answer that if I had seen it, that girl would not have ended up like this, because I am sure that the first thing is the health of a baby and his life can not be at risk at any time by trying to drink breast milk. Someone should have helped that mother to breastfeed properly and someone should have made sure she was really breastfeeding and was gaining weight. In addition, someone should have told that mother that, if she does not achieve the minimum expected, the ideal is to give her artificial milk and "in a few days, we'll see."
Breast milk is the best, but there have always been problems
As Carlos González says in the video, breastfeeding problems there have always been. The difference with a few decades ago is that then the bottle was given and nothing happened and now breastfeeding is recommended with more momentum because now much more is known and because it is confirmed that it is usually not the same for the baby's health I have one milk or another.
Knowing this, many professionals have joined the cart of "the defense of breast milk" and I corroborate it, because I do not know anyone who says they defend food with formula as the main food, but they have stayed there, in defense . They tell mothers that they have to breastfeed, that it is the best, that it is the most advisable and when the mother does it, she has problems and goes to them in search of solutions they only receive a "you give it, which is the best "," do not give him a bottle, which is worse "and" calm, that all mothers have milk ... give it often and it will get fat ".
And no, this is not so, because if something goes wrong, it will not go well by magic. It is necessary to assess the position, the anatomy of the breast (of the breast), the anatomy of the baby's mouth, a possible frenulum, some disease of the baby, hormonal disorders in the mother such as unknown hypothyroidism or a prolactin deficit and it is necessary Value what the mother's knowledge is and how she is breastfeeding her baby.
Once all the data is known, we must act.
And if you don't know how to act, offer other resources
Before the flood of mothers breastfeeding in recent years and before the flood of mothers with problems breastfeeding they found in the pediatrician a wall where they collided again and again, not seeing their problems resolved, the same mothers began to organize to share their knowledge with each other and find the solutions that medical professionals did not know how to offer.
Thus the support groups grew and multiplied, whose specialization and experience has grown so much that we are many trained and informed health professionals (pediatricians, nurses, midwives, etc.) that at specific times we end up using the support groups to that give us their vision on a case or, directly, the solution.
In many cases the support groups are made up of mothers who have been trained on their own, obtaining important titles such as the IBCLC, have attended congresses and have specialized in the subject, being extremely updated and with an incredible experience both when breastfeeding their children and when dealing with nursing mothers with problems (they see hundreds of cases every year).
It is for this reason that I am clear that, When a professional does not know or is not sure how to act, he should look for alternatives and other resources, such as referring the mother to another more trained professional or recommending assistance to a breastfeeding support group.
"Well, I want to make the mother dizzy, if with a bottle you have it solved," they told me once. True, but it is not I who must make that decision and it is not I who must give that solution as the first: "What do you say, your back hurts when you walk? You could go swimming to strengthen it, but not to get too dizzy , with a wheelchair you have it solved. "
Video | Criatures In Babies and more | Interpretation of the weight and growth tables by Carlos González (I) and (II), Carlos González explains how long to breastfeed a baby
