Genre: Opinion/Argumentation

...Breastfeeding Only Works For A Few Weeks. "But you need this -- how else are you going to feed your baby?  Breastfeeding only works for a few weeks." -- Postpartum nurse after chasing the mother down the hallway after discharge.  The mother had left the formula gift bag in the room. Wow, this is a very sad comment if this nurse really believes this. Besides, even if this were the case, does this nurse think the mother would be incapable of going to the store and buying formula if she wanted? This baby would starve without the all-important sample sized can. "...and here's how we make sure! Studies show that receiving samples of formula reduces duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding. You wouldn't want to miss out on this sample and risk meeting your own breastfeeding goals, would you?!" Bahahahahhaha! So before the invention of formula, all the babies in the human race starved to death after a few weeks, when breastfeeding stopped working. Oh, wait... Oh well, we modern day women must just have mutated boobs that stop producing milk around week 3 Yeah, whenever I hear these kind of comments I have a barely resistable urge to say something incredibly sarcastic like: so you think the world sprang into existance in the 1940?s huh? Wow, and they call Biblical Creationists 'Young Earthers'. Then I must have 5 zombie babies who were all breastfed at least a year. And really "How else are you going to feed the baby?" Does that nurse really think that the tiny sample of formula is going to feed the baby for any substantial length of time? If mom is going to formula feed she is going to have to go to the store to buy formula whether she takes the stupid bag or not. I'm laughing at the visualization of a nurse dashing through the L&D unit with an outstretched hand holding the oh-so-important formula bag, jumping over isolettes and sliding foot first into the elevator to give the mother her life saving 12oz. of free formula. Wow, good thing she was on shift today or else this mother would have been sent into the big cruel world with only her breasts to nourish her child. I agree with the suggestion to send a letter. The nurse may be assuming the mother is going to go back to work full-time in a few weeks, but the way it's said, the nurse has communicated a belief that breasts only produce milk for a month or two at the most. You gotta wonder how we managed to survive as a species and live on this planet for as long as we have if that were the case. All babies would've died and we wouldn't be here to have this conversation, would we? The more I read this site and my own background in medicine tells me that people just don't THINK anymore. Even if this was true, why on earth couldn't the mother just drive to the nearest Wal-Mart and buy a can of formula? I think the lack of logic behind the "this goody bag of formula will sustain your child for the first year of his/her life" bugs me more than the "breastfeeding only works for a few weeks" nonsense! Icon Search the Site My OB Said What?!? The purpose of this site is to capture the crazy but true comments said to birthing women by doctors, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, and childbirth educators when they are having their babies! Got a "My OB Said WHAT?!?" to share?? Send them to submissions@myobsaidwhat.com . And watch this site for more unbelievable but true comments said to women as they birth their babies!