My issue with nutritional schooling arose after my experience in the NICU. Having been browbeaten for weeks to allow them to feed my daughter powdered fortifier. Constant harassment and guilt trips. Even after using the excuse that all family members were milk intolerant (a fib). Not having the right type of experience at the time, we finally gave in, against our better judgement. They promised that they would cease at the first sign of problems.
In about a week she stopped breathing, and developed that necrotitis or whatever. I did a search for week/necrotitis and found a ton of mothers that had gone through the same thing, the exact problem, at the exact same period of introducing the formula. It took another week before she stabilized, and the calls and browbeating resumed. The nutritional doc finally gave up after I brought in a printed copy from the FDA website, from years earlier, stating that it was not safe to give the stuff to preemies. I also printed the big warning from the makers website, explaining that even though it is formulated for preemies, it is not safe for preemies.
After telling me that there were no specific mineral supplements alone that we could use, and that the only option was fortifier, the doctor refused to deal with us any longer and we ended up with a Hindu doctor. He said we were correct in everything we were doing, and came up with the exact minerals needed, and things went well from there.
One of the things I noticed is that the mothers intuition means nothing in the medical field, there is only standard care. My wife had repeatedly asked for a smaller bottle nipple to make it easier for her to swallow, while they told us there was only the one size available. Our daughter spent extra time in the NICU because they said her heart would stop during swallow. After a battery of tests, and a bunch of X-rays during swallow, they told me they needed to switch to a smaller nipple because the big gulp would press against her heart as it went down.
Pretty much the whole ordeal was a fight to get her out of the building with the least amount of harm. I found afterwards that the standard of care sets up our children for cancer and other health issues when they get older.
The nutritional expert even told us that our decisions will guarantee eye problems, lung problems, bone problems, and brain issues. For some reason she has no problems at all, as compared to the norm.
In about a week she stopped breathing, and developed that necrotitis or whatever. I did a search for week/necrotitis and found a ton of mothers that had gone through the same thing, the exact problem, at the exact same period of introducing the formula. It took another week before she stabilized, and the calls and browbeating resumed. The nutritional doc finally gave up after I brought in a printed copy from the FDA website, from years earlier, stating that it was not safe to give the stuff to preemies. I also printed the big warning from the makers website, explaining that even though it is formulated for preemies, it is not safe for preemies.
After telling me that there were no specific mineral supplements alone that we could use, and that the only option was fortifier, the doctor refused to deal with us any longer and we ended up with a Hindu doctor. He said we were correct in everything we were doing, and came up with the exact minerals needed, and things went well from there.
One of the things I noticed is that the mothers intuition means nothing in the medical field, there is only standard care. My wife had repeatedly asked for a smaller bottle nipple to make it easier for her to swallow, while they told us there was only the one size available. Our daughter spent extra time in the NICU because they said her heart would stop during swallow. After a battery of tests, and a bunch of X-rays during swallow, they told me they needed to switch to a smaller nipple because the big gulp would press against her heart as it went down.
Pretty much the whole ordeal was a fight to get her out of the building with the least amount of harm. I found afterwards that the standard of care sets up our children for cancer and other health issues when they get older.
The nutritional expert even told us that our decisions will guarantee eye problems, lung problems, bone problems, and brain issues. For some reason she has no problems at all, as compared to the norm.
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