There is at least one pediatrician acting as chapter
breastfeeding
coordinator for the AAP in every state (I'm one of the two
in WI) who can
help with education and promotion of breastfeeding on a
doc-to-doc level. I
have given "breastfeeding basics for physicians"
lectures as part of my
role as chapter breastfeeding coordinator in WI.
Any tips on how to deal with one of our family docs who
actively discourages breastfeeding? We do not have
pediatricians here and new Moms take their babies to him.At
the first sign of problems he encourages them to wean. Moms
have told me that he asks them at every visit if they have
started bottle feeding yet. I know that he has one grown son
and I strongly suspect that he was not breast-fed.
I have tried a friendly approach to discuss this with him
but he dismisses breastfeeding as 'a bunch of crazy women'
(!)
I am close to reporting him formally but he is getting on
in years and will ( hopefully) retire soon. I - on the other
hand - am close to tearing my hair out!
Julie Taylor
RN IBCLC
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