got told off for BF again..

[Jenkeywoo]

DD is 11 months but not really interested in solid food - she BF's on demand and it suits us fine - some days she eats, some days she doesn't. I've just come back from the out of hours doctor tonight as she is throwing up etc and of course I end up getting told off for BF her on demand still. I know it makes no difference to the amount she'll eat but of course it is all my fault - I imagine world peace and climate change probably also rest on the fact that I dare to breastfeed my baby on demand still at 11 months.

firstly, feel like i have stolen this thread a bit so apologies to jenkeywoo. ALL the HV's and staff nurses who suppoet them in my place of work have been put through the UNICEF BF training - there is a HUGE push on just now for health centres and maternity units to become 'baby friendly' this means ALL nurses and MW having completed this 5 day intensive course and completing the assessment to then become certificated. BF councellor still the best bet for any thing unusual though - had one on our course who said she trained for 4 years to be able to become a counsellor!!!!The unit I will be going to soon for my impending delivery is supposedly baby friendly so i'll be VERY interested to see what the care is like!!! i'll have to lie about being a HV though or the staff will avoid me like the plauge!! think i'll say i'm something exotic - any suggestions????

Trouble with being given dodgy advice is that then makes you question if the doctor in question can correctly advise on other issues

There was a similar thread earlier this week about a mum who got a negative reaction from her doctor about her fainting - think she quoted him as saying 'if you will insist on breastfeeding' - and her baby was only 4 months old! He directly blamed her fainting episodes on the fact that she was breastfeeding.

Derlor - I so wish there were more like you out there. Like Caligula says, if the best advice they can give is directing a mother to a bf counsellor, then that is still sound advice and helpful. Personal negativity and ignorance most definitely isn't and undermines their professional credibility.

lol - "thank god this is annonymous or i'd get shot"

i feel like that ALL the time

Jenkeywoo, you have the worst doctors ever. Try to cope with it by mentally adding the words 'this was done to me and look how f**ked up I am' to whatever twaddle they come out with.

Have they suggested LEACHES yet? I'm sure it's coming. Your GPs are three hundred years old right?

Hey you may larf, but they have discovered that leeches serve a bona fide medical purpose (helping the blood clot or something) and are using them again.

Very environmentally friendly, cheap treatment, leeches. Not to be sniffed at.

No I wouldn't sniff them, you'd end up looking like Charlie Chaplin!!!!