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Family "Myth"information
History Doesn't Have to Repeat Itself
By Brenda Nixon
Some moms accept advice to stop nursing if Baby has diarrhea or vomiting. However, the best medicine for a baby's gut infection is Mom's milk. This golden fluid is the only food Baby requires when sick, except under exceptional circumstances. Moreover, a sick baby is comforted by nursing, and Mom is comforted by her baby's sucking.
"Your baby is allergic to your milk!" some are told. "It's not the milk, but something from the mom's diet that is coming through the milk," Penko says. "The most offensive in the diet tends to be caffeine and dairy. But moms can find success with an elimination diet and keep nursing. Taking an allergic baby off Mom's milk and putting him on formula can be costly for the parents when they end up having to put the baby on the pre-digested formula because the baby is allergic to all the others."
Biologically, breastfeeding success or failure isn't passed down through generations. Attitudes and poor advice are. "Breastfeeding success depends on many things, but not on heredity," Penko says. What are the factors contributing to breastfeeding success? "Knowledge, experience, help and support are the key factors," Penko says. "We have had several moms who did not succeed with their first child, but by getting more experience around nursing moms, coming to our meetings and getting more knowledge on how to nurse, and having a support team during the first few weeks enabled them to nurse successfully for many years."
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