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I am a member of LLL of St. Petersburg, my good friend is my leader. She has

given me tons of info, so I am totally armed four Lily's 2 year visit.

It just burns me up, as this is our second ped. The first one, his nurse told me

at 1 year to start her with whole cows milk and begin weaning! I had no

inclination to follow those directions. She had made note that I was going to

follow her directions, and when the dr. came in he asked why I was going to

wean. I told him I wasn't and that his nurse told me I should. He told me that

if I continued, it was obviously best, and she would not need whole cow milk.

My husband grew up on milk, but I was allergic when younger, and never really

drank it (only in my cereal and baked goods). There was no way I was giving it

to Lily. And now that I am trying to go vegan, I do not keep it in my home.

I was feeling very compromised at the time I was challenged, as Lily was going

through some health issues and was placed on a clear liquid diet. I was told I

could nurse through it, but there was no follow up or end date suggested. I

read that it should continue for only 48 hours, and at the 50 hour mark, I had

taken about all I could. She was nursing round the clock, as she was very

hungry, lost almost 1/4 of her total weight!

She is back to fine now, and gained everything back, thank goodness. But, as I

was trying to get to the bottom of everything, he was grilling me on our nursing

habits. I thought " not the time, buddy! " But, I listened to what he had to

say, and I agreed, to some point, w/o wanting to.

Thanks very much, for listening

Cassie

 

chandelle' <earthmother213 wrote:

cassie, you should let your doctor know that the major health organizations

of the world recommend nursing for at least two years, if not longer.

 

chandelle

 

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Cassie Dixon <roxy87cabriolet

wrote:

 

> " we parents have

> enough to fight about with the world at large without having to defend our

> practices to doctors who should know better. "

> I want to bring this to my dr. office, as he was questioning my nursing of

> my 21 m.o.daughter.

> I truly agree with you, as I was not a veggie when I was pregnant, and ate

> a half gallon of ice cream every other day!

> Cassie

>

> chandelle' <earthmother213 <earthmother213%40gmail.com>> wrote:

> i think you're pretty amazing for not getting all over her about her diet; i

>

> confess to being pretty bad about it myself even though i ate CRAP during

> both of my vegetarian pregnancies. i had one vegetarian pregnancy and one

> vegan pregnancy and they were both hard in different ways; now i realize

> that a lot of my problem might have been a B-vitamin deficiency (not

> necessarily because of the veg*nism but because i just ate crappy

> overall...a lot of prepared foods, a lot of cereal, a lot of sugar,

> etc....i

> really struggle eating well in pregnancy because there is so little i can

> keep down, and most that i can keep down is horrible). both labors were

> also hard in different ways but i survived both to have unmedicated

> births,

> and even had a homebirth with my second; i gave birth standing up in my

> bedroom and my husband caught her (well...sort of) because she came so

> fast

> at the end. the human body is amazingly resilient, but of course it's best

> to eat as clean, healthy and safe as we possibly can. it's sad that your

> sister doesn't have more support. in this day and age she can surely find

> a

> doctor who's going to support her dietary choices; in both pregnancies i

> was

> practically applauded for staying away from animal foods, because they

> contain the most toxins and often toxins are the biggest risk to a

> developing fetus. of course i had midwives, who tend to be quite educated

> in nutrition, but even the pediatricians i've taken my children to have

> said

> that my vegan children are the healthiest they've ever seen and they wish

> other parents were half as conscientious as we are about their kids'

> diets.

> such doctors are out there, and they're worth looking for. we parents have

> enough to fight about with the world at large without having to defend our

> practices to doctors who should know better.

>

> chandelle

>

>