Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D., Co-Founder
On Sept. 22, 2017, senior members of the Fed is Best Foundation, and guests including a neonatologist from a leading U.S. tertiary care hospital who wished to remain anonymous and a pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Paul Thornton, M.D, from Cook Children’s Hospital Fort Worth, lead author of the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s newborn hypoglycemia guidelines met via teleconference with top officials of the WHO Breastfeeding Program: Dr. Laurence Grummer-Strawn, Ph.D., Dr. Nigel Rollins, M.D. and Dr. Wilson Were, M.D. to express their concerns about the complications arising from the BFHI Ten Steps and to ask what, if any, monitoring, research, or public outreach the WHO has planned regarding the risks of accidental starvation of exclusively breastfed newborns. The Foundation members who attended were 1) Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, MD, Co-Founder, 2) Jody Segrave-Daly, RN, IBCLC, Co-Founder, 3) Julie Tibbets, JD, Partner at Alston & Bird, LLP, Pro-Bono Attorney for the Foundation, 4) Brian Symon, MD, Senior Advisor, and 5) Hillary Kuzdeba, MPH, former quality improvement program coordinator at a childrens hospital , managing infant feeding projects and Senior Advisor.
This is a video of the presentation given to the WHO officials:
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so sad…… In Belgium, they try to achive the 75% exclusive breastfeeding goal. Those 10 steps of BFHI, no lacitivist knows…. The only advise given to a new mother is: never supplement and if something goes wrong, its the mother her fault, she didn’t do her best and was selfish!!!! Glucose, bilirubine of natrium is never tested even if the baby is lethargic and yellow!!
BFHI is dangerous to new mothers!! Its a procedure of paliative sedation!!!
WHO and UNICEF are becoming only policical instruments, they don’t care about the welbeing of our baby’s!