Betsy Bailey

Oh a couple other tidbits about BFing (thank you for putting up with me – I’m working through the experience mentally and putting it all down in writing is soooooo therapeutic for me).

When I took him to the doctor on Tuesday, one of the assistants was watching me nurse him and you could see the gears grinding as she put two and two together… here’s a little 12 month old baby nursing right in front of her eyes! She just had to ask: “Has he ever had any solid foods??”

Then the GI doctor, the second day we saw him: “You understand that breastmilk alone is not enough nutrition for a baby over 9 months old, right?”

This AFTER I told him and his assistant AND the nutritionist AND the two different pediatricians in detail what his normal daily intake of solids/breastmilk was. I saw them all taking notes – does no one ever READ this stuff? No, they just look at me nursing him through a freaking illness and extrapolate that to well child care.

My god, the frustration. If I’d had another day there, I would have been saying, if you’re just going to breeze in here on your rounds, say stupid shit and leave, then don’t waste your time and MY MONEY. If you want to have a productive conversation with problem resolution and total health and wellness in mind, then grant me the courtesy of LISTENING to me when I talk, otherwise how in the hell can I take you seriously??

I despair of our health care system. Would socializing it make us even MORE powerless than we already are? That might be one for the debate thread LOL.

And on that note, I don’t even want to think about the bill we’ve incurred. <groan> So much for being out of debt….