Abridged Comment Presented on July 11, 2019 at the USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee Meeting in Washington, DC My name is Dr. Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, Co-Founders of the Fed is Best Foundation, a non-profit organization of health professionals and parents whose mission is to research and advocate for safe breastfeeding practices. We do this to prevent … Continue reading A Fully Fed Baby is the Biological Ideal
Ella D. I am a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse and the hospital where I work delivers more than 2,000 babies annually, over half from high-risk pregnancies. In our part of the country, “natural parenting” is widely embraced, and it is difficult to find a hospital that isn’t “Baby-Friendly.” Our hospital administration views the … Continue reading NICU Nurse Discloses Newborn Admission Rates From Breastfeeding Complications in BFHI Unit
Christie del Castillo-Hegyi, M.D. From December 2018 to January 2019, the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030 published the proposed Healthy People 2030 Objectives for public comment. Of note, the proposed Healthy People 2030 objectives saw a marked change from the 2020 objectives, namely a reduction of the breastfeeding … Continue reading Fed is Best Foundations Statement to USDA Healthy People Goals 2030
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
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
