Dr told me no nutritional value in breastmilk after 6 months!

[turkEgyptlets]

Can't believe that! I was actually mentioning that she wasn't sleeping through at 9 months and he asked if she was still taking the breast. yes, i said. so he said "you need to wean her off now, there's no nutritional value in breastmilk after 6 months, it's only for bonding not nutrition. wean her off now or you'll find you'll be making her go cold turkey at one year's old"!

was dumfounded

this was after a friend said to me today

"you're still getting up with her 4 times a night?!?!?! are you crazy? a baby is biologically able to go through the night at 3 months. give her water....."

i feel like shite today

Feck them all is what I say, they are both talking shite - but you know that. It really doesn't help when people feel they need to comment on something they obviously know nothing about. GGGrrrrrr.

Oh absolutely. On the night of the first day of the sixth month, the composition of bm changes to absolute nothingness - it is a most mystical process. NOT! As if.

I could understand a doctor saying that the nutritional benefits of bm relative to something else decreased -- this is still FALSE but the idea that their is no nutitional value is impossible. Matress stuffing has a nutritional value fgs.

Your doctor is a lummox. Carry on regardless.

i shall

btw, my friend's baby is about 10 weeks old. all 3 of her children were sleeping through by then. they still do and go down at 630, they are 5,2 and 10 weeks.

life can be such an arse to some people and such a bag of chocolate to others. [pouting emoticon]

I rather wake up and bf my baby a few times a night than sitting up with a sick child ALL night long.
I have bf 3 children and they hardly had a sniffle while bf. As soon as I stopped, they got sick and needed their first dose of antibiotics. After experiencing this twice with my first two children I bf my third for over 2 years. I am now pregnant again and plan to bf until until 3 or 4.

that's lovely fairymum, good for you.

What a mad doctor. Why would something that enables babies to double in size in just six months become water at exactly that time??

And even if it was 'for bonding' and not nutrition....what the f* is wrong with bonding????

exactly tiktok. no worries, i took it with a pinch of salt. but even so

What a twonk. And why would you have to go cold turkey with her at one ? Does it have negative nutritional value then ?
And as for not needing a night feed past three months, well ! Some adults I know need a late night snack to get them through the night without waking in hunger. Certainly DS needed a feed (in as much as when I was away and DH offered him a bottle in the night he necked it) until he was 14 months or so. Knew that he didn't actually need the milk when he started not wanting a bottle if that was all that was on offer. Starting sleeping through at 17 months.

oh i'm so glad there's mumsnet, you know i would have spent all day worrying had i not been in in the know from being on here so many years!

Even the big proponents of no night feeding (Ferber, Chris Green, Gina Ford) all say don't try the no night feeding thing until at least 6 months.... Don't they still milk cows at least 6 months after the calf was born? Presumably that milk has no nutritional value, either?!

ha ha, good point about the cows!

and gina et al.... i would tell my friend except she is trying to help me ( her message was through facebook) but i seriously think she doesn't understand. she has been so incredibly lucky with her THREE sleepers.

Wow, how nice to have a doctor who bases their advice on personal opinion rather than medical fact. I don't think! I'm sorry, but it had to be a male doctor, didn't it?

indeed!

why why WHY do they say it? Where do they get that idea from? What's in it for them TO say it? I just don't get it. AT ALL.

They don't give a shit do they. And this guy is a PAEDIATRICIAN, not a GP

what a load of b*llocks.

i dont even bf and know its b*llocks! i also have a ff 14 mo who still needs feeds of formula during the night so your friend is talking rubbish too!

dd however slept through from 8 days.....what was i doing differently?!?! nothing!

Ugh

pmsl VS, whilst feeling q sick, thanks.

Funny, but I was actually thinking of stopping bf for my own reasons, now I think I may just have to continue to spite the b*rd.

And get her latched on in front of him next time I visit.... until she is about 6.