tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36650952.post1026444135653871706..comments2024-03-27T10:29:06.518-04:00Comments on A Natural Scientist: FMB: Various Kinds of WoeJenny F. Scientisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072624674603337551noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36650952.post-85736712383218640652015-04-23T07:20:49.268-04:002015-04-23T07:20:49.268-04:00Doh! Of course it is. I knew that really, but Litt...Doh! Of course it is. I knew that really, but LittleBear has limited my sleep lately so I'm a bit fuzzy round the edges. Thank you :)Physics Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10322901169676536728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36650952.post-23041943804545861732015-04-22T07:01:07.551-04:002015-04-22T07:01:07.551-04:00Five minute blogging! I'm sorry if the intern...Five minute blogging! I'm sorry if the internet suggests something, er, dodgy. I write for five minutes and click publish regardless.Jenny F Scientisthttp://naturalscientist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36650952.post-74881177931544697792015-04-22T04:57:50.060-04:002015-04-22T04:57:50.060-04:00She's your baby, and you're doing what you...She's your baby, and you're doing what you think, feel and believe to be best. And you're smart enough that your version of "best" is well-informed as well as loving, so you're not going to go far wrong, no matter what. <br /><br />Supplemental formula at two days?! Before the mother's milk has come in? That's just f***ing stupid. Makes me really quite cross.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I have to ask, what does "FMB" stand for? I tried googling and wished I hadn't!Physics Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10322901169676536728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36650952.post-67612302221880459262015-04-20T15:25:58.698-04:002015-04-20T15:25:58.698-04:00Thank you. :) Mostly everyone is like "Jesu...Thank you. :) Mostly everyone is like "Jesus, why haven't you weaned her already?" and I'm all like "For REASONS. But not necessarily good ones. Leave me alone." <br /><br />Fortunately Prudence is a nurse, and so the ER was... right downstairs. And certainly we were breastfed exclusively for more than 6 months so probably it makes no difference, but the constraint it places on one's everyday life to not eat anything, anywhere, ever, is pretty big. I'd like to think I'm able to influence that even though I'm pretty sure I can't. <br /><br />This hospital is... what's the word? Oh, yes. Stupid. I think they were confused and frightened and so they just took it- when they left after 3.5 days the baby hadn't lost ANY weight so that tells me the formula was rather <i>de trop</i>. Her milk finally came in - it took five days because of the hospital's crappy advice... sigh. I'm just used to the average competence and respect level being a LOT higher. (I had to threaten - well, I asked the nurses loudly but very politely how - to sign the baby out AMA, to be 'allowed' to leave after 28 hours. With my THIRD. CHILD. My healthy child.) <br /><br />I think heroic and too stubborn to be smart may be indistinguishable in this case. Jenny F. Scientist, PhDhttp://naturalscientist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36650952.post-51369182793431229382015-04-20T15:02:16.274-04:002015-04-20T15:02:16.274-04:00The last bullet point certainly gave me flashbacks...The last bullet point certainly gave me flashbacks to having a supplemental nursing system forced on me at two days postpartum. I was so desperate to get out of the fucking hospital and afraid they wouldn't let me leeeeeeeeeeeeeave. God, such IDIOCY. <br />Ahem. I think you have excellent reasons for not wanting to wean, in addition to the EMOTIONS. It just makes me SAD to think of the endless suffering, the kind of suffering that everyone expects you to minimize and tough out. I guess, just, you know, in case you need someone to say it and everyone else is too respectful of your decisions: she WILL be okay whenever you choose to wean, whether it's now or a year from now. I hope and pray that the breastfeeding doc saves you. (I still remember the way the doc I met with looked me in the eye and said "I'm so sorry you're having such a hard time." OMG, validation!) You're heroic, you know that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com