This made my jaw drop.

WHAT AN IDIOT. I hope someone helped this mother.

And we wonder why we have low rates of breastfeeding. Ignorance among medical professionals is a BIG part of why.

Colostrum is AMAZING! It’s rich in calories and nutrition so that even the tiny bit that fits into a newborn’s stomach provides incredible benefits.

This one makes me feel sad, and little sick to my stomach.

Ugggghhhh!!! The misinformation is just sickening.

And for the record, colostrum isn’t just good–it’s GREAT!

That makes me sad

Because women evolved to leak poison from their breasts before the milk comes in. OMG the ignorance.

It’s called liquid gold.
Which I think is beautiful.
And Kat, it would be lovely if it was *just* ignorance.

shocking! As said by another, I hope this mother got the help she needed.

Good Grief. What decade is this??

I hope someone educated this OB resident PDQ…where did he learn about breastfeeding? From the Nestle Institute?

Oh. My. Freakin. Goodness!

From my own hospital experience, it seems that breastfeeding is, at best, severely undermined at hospital, and at worst, sabotaged. After my unnecesarean, I didn’t see my baby for almost FOUR HOURS, and then I had three different nurses tell me to just give him formula so I wouldn’t “hurt myself” by putting pressure on my incision. Then they had my hubby give him a little formula for low blood sugar. Then they told my to supplement w/ formula till his bili count came down to normal. I had a nurse wake me up on the second day to beg me to let her give him formula b/c he was starving and not getting enough milk from me. I swear they didn’t WANT me to bf. But I screwed them and did it. Two-and-a-half years later I’m STILL doing it. AND nursing his home-born little sister. So yeah. Hospital isn’t the place to get bfing support in my opinion.

Just nauseating. Misinformed is about the politest I can call it. Any properly trained OB would know better.

Wait, what? BUH?!

SO FRUSTRATING!!!

STUPID, STUPID…..Why is bfing not taught properly to professionals who should know it?!? Argh!!!

Sorry….just really angry tonight at stuff like this. I will have to stay away from this site when pregnant lest my blood pressure boil…

Oh the poor babies who all starved to death before formula was invented!
It’s a good thing the human race survived long enough for them to invent Enfamil!

*looks for sarcasm button*

face/palm

When my first daughter was born she was rushed to NICU after with a hole in her lung. She couldn’t eat, because it could have caused some serious problems, but the NICU nurses brought me one of the huge hospital pumps (it’s like this industrial super powered pump that could ice through a straw, lol). She told me that it would hurt, but that I should use it because she wanted to give my baby the colostrum as soon as the doctor cleared her to eat. It really made me feel good. Too bad this nurse wasn’t on duty later when the other nurses were trying to convince me not to breast feed because my daughter just wouldn’t take my breast (my nipples were just way to large for her ity bity mouth, plus she had already had my colostrum and some breast milk in a bottle and that was easier for her). Pumping was so easy for me, I didn’t see why I should stop. I made so much milk that I had to freeze alot of it and had enough saved up for 2 months after I stopped pumping!

I have to comment and yet I’m speechless. This is probably the most ignorant thing I have read here so far.
Just mind-boggling!

a baby can live off of one gulp of colostrum for DAYS… but ya know it’s no good.
When my twins were in the NICU the smaller of the two didn’t get any of my colostrum in the beginning. She had tons of tummy issues. I was a dairy cow for 4 months literally. I pumped 12-16 oz every 2 hours, and they were only eating 1-2 oz when they finally came home at 6 weeks. Well around 5 weeks the doctor said her tummy issues were the only thing keeping her in the NICU because she couldn’t gain weight if she couldn’t keep the milk down. I had a mommy’s intuition moment and said “I have almost a gallon of frozen colostrum in my freezer at home, would that help? So I brought it in, and a week later my babies came home.

You’re never going to establish an adequate milk supply without giving your child the colostrum! These people are IDIOTS!! Seriously, they are completely unqualified and unprofessional. Its insane.

Oh how did we ever make it as a species for millions of years without formula? I can’t believe that these people are considered educated people.

Urgh! THESE are the people that make my job so hard because then I have to un-teach this sort of misinformation from so-called “professionals”. Colostrum IS liquid gold, and I’m thrilled if the mothers whose babies I look after can manage to hand express even a few millilitres. You can tell this OB has never experienced the devastation of NEC.