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Information for Hospitals: Ensuring Safety for Breastfed Newborns

RE: Newborn Patient Safety Issues due to the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative  The Fed is Best Foundation (fedisbest.org) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting safe breastfeeding practices and policies. We do this by providing families and health professionals peer-reviewed evidenced-based education on infant nutritional requirements, breastfeeding, and how to prevent serious complications of insufficient … Continue reading Information for Hospitals: Ensuring Safety for Breastfed Newborns

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Letter to Doctors and Parents About the Dangers of Insufficient Exclusive Breastfeeding and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative

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(En español) Dear Colleague and Parent: My name is Christie del Castillo-Hegyi and I am an emergency physician, former NIH scientist, with a background in newborn brain injury research at Brown University, and mother to a 6-year-old child who is neurologically disabled. I am writing to you because my child fell victim to newborn jaundice, … Continue reading Letter to Doctors and Parents About the Dangers of Insufficient Exclusive Breastfeeding and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative

Exclusively Breastfed Newborns Have Double the Risk of Being Rehospitalized

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By Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D. This week, the journal Academic Pediatrics, published a study conducted by the Newborn Weight Loss research group led by Drs. Valerie Flaherman and Ian Paul, which consisted of 143,889 healthy, term and near-term newborns born at the Baby-Friendly Northern California Kaiser Permanente hospital system from 2009-2013.[1] They included newborns who … Continue reading Exclusively Breastfed Newborns Have Double the Risk of Being Rehospitalized

Why the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Guidelines for “Medically Necessary” Supplementation Make the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Unsafe

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by Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D., Co-Founder of the Fed is Best Foundation On September 22, 2017, senior members of the Fed is Best Foundation met with the top officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) Breastfeeding Program. We learned that the WHO has never studied the complications of the WHO Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding … Continue reading Why the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Guidelines for “Medically Necessary” Supplementation Make the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Unsafe

Frequent Feeding VS Cluster Feeding: How to Know If Your Baby Is Being Adequately Breastfed Before Lactogenesis II

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Frequent breastfeeding and cluster feeding are often used interchangeably, creating confusion for parents. This educational blog will help parents clarify the differences between the two. What are the differences between frequent breastfeeding and cluster feeding before lactogenesis II for newborns? Frequent Feeding-Newborn babies feed frequently (every 2-3 hours) before lactogenesis II, the onset of copious … Continue reading Frequent Feeding VS Cluster Feeding: How to Know If Your Baby Is Being Adequately Breastfed Before Lactogenesis II