If a mother’s colostrum does not meet the child’s caloric requirement, they will breastfeed for hours a day in an attempt to relieve their hunger. If a child is receiving a fraction of their caloric requirement through early exclusive breastfeeding, they can experience severe hunger and thirst, which is why they will cry inconsolably and breastfeed continuously when it is the only source of calories and fluid they are offered. It has also been found that 10% of healthy, term, exclusively breastfed babies undergoing the Baby-Friendly protocol experience hypoglycemia to levels that are associated with 50% declines in the ability to pass the literacy and math proficiency test at 10 years of age, even if aggressively corrected.Ĭonstant, unsatisfied nursing and inconsolable crying are two of the signs of newborn starvation that lead to brain-threatening complications. So far, the scientific literature shows that babies who lose greater than 7% of their birth weight are at the highest risk of developing excessive jaundice and hypernatremia to levels that can cause long-term developmental disability. In addition, at this time, the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative has produced no data on the safety of newborn fasting and weight loss caused by exclusive colostrum feeding and what degree of weight loss protects a child from brain-threatening complications like hyperbilirubinemia, hypernatremic dehydration, and hypoglycemia.
The only study on diaper counts has shown that even newborns who lose excessive weight can produce up to 6 wet and dirty diapers a day. By 53 hours of life, he had lost 9.72%.Īt this time, the scientific literature on wet and dirty diaper production has shown that the number of diapers produced have no correlation with adequacy of milk intake in the first 4 days of life. On the second day, he produced 3 wet diapers and 6 dirty diapers and nursed for almost 14 hours total. His nursing sessions became longer and longer until he was on the breast continuously by the second day of life. Unless you’d had a breast augmentation or cancer or some serious medical reason as to why you couldn’t breastfeed, your baby would not be given formula unless a prescription was written by the pediatrician.)īy the first 24 hours, he had nursed a total of 9.3 hours, had zero wet diapers and four dirty diapers. (What this means is everything is geared toward breastfeeding. Landon was born in a “Baby-Friendly” hospital.
We were ready! Or so we thought….every class and book was geared toward breastfeeding and how it’s so important if you want a healthy child. Jarrod and I wanted what was best for Landon as every parent does for their child. I share his story in hopes that no other family ever experiences the loss that we have. But I want people to know how much deeper the pain gets. I wanted to share for a long time about what happened to Landon, but I always feared what others would say and how I’d be judged. Most kiddos would be starting kindergarten at this age. Landon would be five today if he were still alive.
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