Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP

09/18/2023

I'm not ignoring you, I'm just trying to juggle 300 things. 🫠

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05/14/2023

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful, moms, grandmas, aunties, sisters, daughters, and friends.
Words from our own wonderful Nurse Holly!
And flowers from Nurse Jen's garden:)

03/08/2023

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03/08/2023

Our best wishes to you on International Women's Day 2023!

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03/01/2023

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11/07/2022

We have posted on this issue before, but now is a good time to think about it seriously again, given the world climate meeting taking place in Egypt.

Every year 130 million babies are said to be born in the world. A significant proportion are not breastfed at all, and most are not breastfed for what the WHO considers the “ideal” time period. The WHO recommends that mothers breastfeed exclusively for 6 months and continue breastfeeding (along with added food) to the baby's age of two years and beyond.

Why is the fact that very few of the 130 million babies born every year are not fed as the WHO recommends a problem for global warming?

1. Formula is usually made from cow milk which requires large numbers of cows to be raised and fed and much land is taken up for this purpose. Soybeans for formula also "eat" in the form of fertilizers, and harmful pesticides are used in quantity, and acres and acres of land are used to grow soybeans.
2. Transportation of cow milk or soybeans to factories requires energy.
3. Transforming cow milk or soybeans to formula requires energy.
4. Infant formula is packaged with significant amounts of throw away products including plastics to “keep fresh”.
5. Infant feeding bottles are usually made from unrecyclable plastics.
6. The manufacture of the plastics used for packaging of infant formula and bottles require significant amounts of energy.
7. The advertising of infant formula uses large amounts of printed materials sent to mothers. In some countries (including Canada and the US) almost every mother receives this "information" either in the mail, in doctors’ offices, often before even the mother gives birth, or in hospital before discharge.
8. Breastfeeding following the guidelines recommended by the WHO decreases the need for artificial birth control. A mother following the recommendations of the WHO would, on average, without artificial birth control have a baby every 2 to 3 years. This would decrease the yearly births significantly and help control our burgeoning population.

Why are not more mothers breastfeeding according to the WHO guidelines?

There are many reasons, but principally:

1. The medical system undermines mothers’ ability to succeed at breastfeeding their babies.
2. Society’s belief that artificial infant feeding is as good as breastfeeding and pressure on mother not to breastfeed or breastfeed only for a short time, is huge.
3. Advertising of infant formula is also a huge factor.

Please consider buying and recommending our new book, What Doctors Don’t Know about Breastfeeding.

Print version and ebook version on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC2HCC6

Print version on Praeclarus site: https://stores.praeclaruspress.com/what-doctors-dont-know-about-breastfeeding-by-jack-newman-and-andrea-polokova/?showHidden=true

09/06/2022

✅ What are the changes in the WHO 2018 BFHI Implementation Guidance Step 2?
✅ What are the components of the 2020 WHO-UNICEF BFHI Competency Verification Toolkit?
✅ Which four implementation projects are currently in progress using the BFHI Competency Verification Toolkit?
Come to Virtual Conference and listen to Linda J. Smith as she will explain, in great detail, each point above.
You must be registered at the to watch this presentation. Register here 👉bit.ly/3D14UFh. Participation registration is available through 29 September, with the content available through 14 October 2022.

09/06/2022

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