Comments on: “…We Will Have To Call CPS.”

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By: Stacie Hogan

Stacie Hogan — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:20:47 +0000

yeah since that is exactly what we need to say to a new mom who is already struggling and probably stressing out herself because baby is having a hard time… Gah. I had issues with my second when she was a day old and i was bawling after her not latching for over an hour. If someone had said something like that to me at that time i would have lost it altogether.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:22:43 +0000

My husband worked for CPS for 3 years. That is just an idle threat. That kind of call wouldn’t even get past the call screeners! But then, the mom wouldn’t necessarily know that.

My daughter would not eat for 48 hours. She kept coughing up fluid. When she finally stopped coughing up fluid, she got interested in nursing. She’s a happy, healthy 3 1/2 year old today of about average height and weight.

By: Gem

Gem — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:23:25 +0000

Male Doctors. ‘Nuff said.

By: The Deranged Housewife

The Deranged Housewife — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:26:05 +0000

Yeah, if the mother’s breasts weren’t bound with tape or she wasn’t given pills to dry up her milk (without her knowledge or consent) first… Where the hell did these bizarre ideas come from? Certainly not from real life observations!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:35:35 +0000

I just wonder where all this false information came. It is absolutely insane!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:48:51 +0000

This doesn’t surprise me. My first was born in an Army hospital and I heard the same thing.

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:13:26 +0000

I heard a similar song and dance when my son was in the NICU. They told me I was starving him because my milk hadn’t come in the first day after birth. Even though he had a perfect latch and we were breastfeeding beautifully. They were trying to make me feel guilty so that I could consent to formula so that they could feed my son without me being physically there. I didn’t bend a bit though but it did pull at my heart strings for a minute.

By: Misha

Misha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:35:48 +0000

Actually, in reply to the tongue tie comment, you do not have to clip them. My daughter was born with a tongue tie and nursed very well (still does). There are different degrees of tongue ties and the lesser degrees may not need to be touched at all.
We chose to wait and see what would happen and if affected her in any way we would have it clipped. We didn’t need to in her case.

By: gail hart

gail hart — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:56:11 +0000

Back in the ancient days — before 1975 or so – they used to withhold food from all babies for 48 hours.
Some radical hospitals fed as early as 24, but it was considered dangerous.
They believed — well, WE believed (I trained back then), that the baby’s had to “rest his stomach”. If he had anything to eat he could not digest it. It would take too much energy out of him – and besides — he would probably just vomit it up. And any baby who vomited risked aspirating it and could develop pneumonia.
The first feed had to be sterile water so “we can see if everything works” and “to clean the baby out”.
We were taught that babies could not become dehydrated for at least three days — and maybe longer – because after all “milk doesn’t come in for at least three days, and maybe five, and the breasts are empty”. So obviously babies did not need food or fluids for several days.
And the baby is too tired. He just wants to sleep. And besides, the new mom needs to rest.
Here’s how it worked to mom’s advantage though: and this is a wonderful irony.
A breastfeeding mom might get to feed and hold her baby EARLY. She could be “permitted” to “try to feed” the baby because everybody knew the breasts are empty for the first three days and Mama would just be a pacifier. The baby would not be in danger of getting anything in his stomach…

When I think of the past and the many wrong things we were SURE were true, it makes me wonder how many things we’re mistaken about these days…