I really need to find another parenting board.
Recently a pregnant mom asked for the pros and cons of circumcism because she wanted to make an educated decision about what to do whe her son was born.
This is a controversal subject, but CAN be discussed without getting nasty. But that thread was closed before it could get started, for fear of ‘hurting someone’s feelings.’
Ick.
autz, that sounds like one board I visit. It started out as a discussion then it started to get dirty with some poeple saying flat out to get a boy circumcised was sexual abuse and on par to the genital mutilation done to girls in some places.
That thread was shut down PDQ and then they took it over to the alternate board which was created by people banned from the first for expressing themselves too strongly.
Neither are too bad except I have to watch my language sometimes on the first and the second has a number of trainwrecks involving circumcision and child support that I didn’t bother to read past the first couple pages.
He’s English; it would be a kipper.
Hey Autz…
Do you post to FT?
Just curious.
Four months is about what many pediatricians recommend for introducing some solid foods. Aaron started on rice cereal and banana.
That said, there are a LOT of ninnies whose recommendations would be dangerous, if not deadly, if taken seriously. My grandmother heard that soy is better than regular formula, and told me to switch Aaron to soy milk. Not soy formula, but that stuff in the dairy case. Aaron’s pedi laughed at the suggestion. I picked up a carton of the stuff in the dairy case and found sugar, flavorings, and other stuff that Aaron probably shouldn’t have had.
Robin
Considering I have no ide what ‘FT’ is, then I guess the answer would be NO.
Parenting boards are the worst, IMO. First of all, you get all these people who think that reading parenting books makes them experts on parenting; meanwhile who even knows if the authors are really experts. You also see posters who believe that one experience with something makes them the final authority . Secondly, you get some highly emotional women who don’t realize they have PPD going absolutely APESHIT at the least bit of perceived criticism. Third, you run into people who have based their entire self-worth on their parenting skills.
Yes, I was banned by the now-defunct Moms Online. Why do you ask?
Yeah, but the impression I got from autz’s initial post was that the person wasn’t introducing cow’s milk in addition to formula, but was using cow’s milk in lieu of regular formula. That is an incredibly bad idea, and can only have negative consequences for the infant. I don’t know if it could be fatal or not, but I do know that there’s a reason formula was invented, rather than just having women who couldn’t breastfeed use cow’s milk instead.
With regards to the soy milk/soy formula confusion, that’s a mistake that apparently enough people made so that for awhile, a lot of soy milks actually had a warning on the side of the box saying “Do not use as infant formula.” Not only does soy milk have stuff in it that your baby probably shouldn’t have; it’s lacking a lot of stuff that your baby needs.
Ah. I didn’t know what they were saying was a good age right now (when I was born it was three months, when my brother was it was six months) but I can’t imagine a four-month-old would be able to get enough out of solids to make up for deficiencies from only getting cow’s milk otherwise.
Can babies be lactose intolerant? If so, would breast milk be a problem? Or just regular cow’s milk?
"There are far more people in the world who do not tolerate lactose than people who do. About 80% of all people over age 3 are lactose intolerant. This statistic applies to Native Americans, Asians from the Far East, Southeast Asians, Africans, African-Americans, and Native Australians. It does not apply to Caucasians, however: only 15% of Caucasians in the U.S. are lactose intolerant.
The statistic also does not apply to babies. Infants from all parts of the world do tolerate lactose–otherwise they couldn’t digest breast milk well. Their bodies make an enzyme, lactase, which enables them to digest the sugar in milk. As a result, in healthy full-term infants lactose intolerance is extremely rare."
http://www.drgreene.com/21_836.html