Went for dd's one year health/development review the other day and told HV that I'm still bf morning and eve, although to be honest I don't know why I ever talk to hv's everyone I've seen has been useless and really non committal about answering any questions I have (NHS Gestapo as my DH calls them!) Anyway after I told her that, she specifically said that there were no vitamins in bm after 6 months. I'm relatively clued up about most things and thought at the time this was rubbish, but didn't want to challenge her at the time with no evidence to back me up. I've since done a little online research and Kellymom brought up this:
kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/ebf-benefits/
In particular-
In the second year (12-23 months), 448 mL of breastmilk provides:
29% of energy requirements
43% of protein requirements
36% of calcium requirements
75% of vitamin A requirements
76% of folate requirements
94% of vitamin B12 requirements
60% of vitamin C requirements
? Dewey 2001
So she is giving out wrong information, it seems specifically to try and discourage me from bf still??!!
I'm a bit annoyed about this as there may be other bf mums who take the HV's word as gospel and this could be discouraging them from continuing bf when the might be happy to.
I'm thinking about writing a letter of complaint, to a relatively high level as I think this is wrong. Not sure who it should be sent to. Any thoughts/suggestions?
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Jezzabell · 16/02/2013 07:11
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bran ·
17/02/2013 19:52
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