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False News Report Used to Discredit Baby-Friendly Critic and Pediatrician

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Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D. Another day, another distortion pushed by supporters of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, who no longer have any reasonable justification for endangering newborns with their policies, namely policies that increase the risk of accidental suffocation, newborn falls and starvation-related brain injury from strict exclusive breastfeeding promotion. Never in the history of Western … Continue reading False News Report Used to Discredit Baby-Friendly Critic and Pediatrician

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Speaks Out About Dangerous Practices of the BFHI

The most common encounters that I see with exclusively breastfed babies during their hospital stay are the complications of not receiving enough colostrum. It is very common to hear frantically crying babies on the mother-baby units because they are hungry and are not satisfied from breastfeeding. This happens every single shift I work. Mothers are … Continue reading Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Speaks Out About Dangerous Practices of the BFHI

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Speaks Out About The Dangerous Practices Of The BFHI

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by Christine K. When the Fed Is Best Foundation launched two years ago, a few nurses sent us messages about their experiences working in a Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) hospital. They shared common concerns about watching exclusively breastfed babies crying out in hunger from not enough colostrum while being refused supplementation just so that high … Continue reading Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Speaks Out About The Dangerous Practices Of The BFHI

Nurses Are Speaking Out About The Dangers Of The Baby-Friendly Health Initiative

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When the Fed Is Best Foundation launched two years ago, a few nurses sent us messages about their experiences working in a BFHI hospital. Some of the nurses felt comfortable speaking out because they left their jobs or retired early, as they did not want to be part of the restrictive breastfeeding policies that were implemented. … Continue reading Nurses Are Speaking Out About The Dangers Of The Baby-Friendly Health Initiative

Response to Baby-Friendly USA Regarding Rates of Hyperbilirubinemia Among Exclusively Breastfed Newborns

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Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D. and Jody Segrave-Daly, RN, IBCLC We at the Fed Is Best Foundation give mothers across the globe a platform to tell their stories about how their babies suffered needlessly because they were denied information and supplementation for their hungry babies while under the care of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative/WHO Ten Steps … Continue reading Response to Baby-Friendly USA Regarding Rates of Hyperbilirubinemia Among Exclusively Breastfed Newborns