I do not usually talk about visits to the doctor or nurse of my little offspring because there is almost never anything remarkable to explain and because, as a general rule, they do not usually try to change our customs, partly because they already know us and partly because they do not always We tell the whole truth.
Last Thursday, however, we went to the 9-month review with Guim (the one in the photo, yes) and we were visited by a nurse we did not know. When talking about food, Miriam began to tell the truth and the whole truth and of course, an unnecessary debate was generated (because we were not going to pay much attention to it), that he finally surprised me, above all because she herself was surprised that our son ate certain things that, apparently, no one had recommended us yet.
In the consultation we were all: Jon, Aran, Guim, Mom and Dad
It was a talk of about 10 minutes on food that we could have saved, really, because in the background it is absurd to cause corrections and advice that you will not follow, but that maybe, just maybe, can be useful in the medium or long term, if with that we get him to think a little about the subject.
The first thing that surprised me was that he began to explain in detail what to offer to eat Guim, with nine months, seeing that it was our third son. I say this because in the consultation (for those who do not know me, I am also a pediatric nurse), when I see a mother with several children I ask her directly to ask me if she has any questions, because I assume that more or less He already knows what to give and what not to give and that, logically, he already knows how to prepare it.
Great to still have breast milk, but ...
Leaving this aside, which is not important, he asked if he was breastfeeding and after receiving a yes congratulated Miriam for continuing with it after nine months. However, he told us that we had (not that “we could”) to start giving him yogurts, because Dairy products are very important, in addition to soft cheeses, to which we replied that we had never given anything of a cow and that in principle, how I suckled… (breast milk is also a dairy, isn't it?).
He was surprised that he didn't drink artificial milk and asked us about the cereals. "We make them with oat milk, or with water ... because they don't like broth," we told him. Then he told us that Miriam could take out the milk to make the cereals or that, if we didn't want to use artificial milk, we could use soy milk for babies. As we only make a daily cereal porridge and it also takes quite a bit (say about 90 ml) I didn't understand why we couldn't make it with oatmeal, which is nothing more than water with oatmeal to which we then add powdered cereals among those that have, oh surprise! the oats.
He told us then that we could start giving him rice after ten months, and we confess that he has been eating rice for two months. Again he was "go irresponsible parents" face, because in his manual seemed to be marked rice at ten months and not before or after. If at four months there are already a lot of pediatricians and nurses who recommend giving babies gluten-free cereals (two cereal porridge, namely, rice and corn), I didn't understand why they couldn't eat rice until ten months.
Dinner? You can't give dinner!
Then he told us that we could start giving him pasta when he was almost a year old, but Miriam told him that we had also given him pasta soup for dinner, of course, which does not have an egg. Then he was patidifusa because we were doing, apparently, something very negative for our son: Give him dinner! As he said, children should not be given dinner until 12 months. Miriam replied that it was just a little soup and she said yes, but that they have to make two bibles a day.
At that moment I already dropped the drop of sweat with the child in my arms, not because of nerves, but because of "what a need ...". Of course, we answer that he doesn't drink bibles, which, as we had said at the beginning, he drinks breast milk, breast milk, takes milk from his mother's tits, is breastfed, drinks his mother's white fluid, is human milk, so valid Like that of the bible. What do I say "so", much more valid than the bible, but that didn't seem to matter to him, because in his manual he should put "a bibe in the morning, vegetables and meat at noon, fruit in the afternoon and a bibe with cereals, or porridge, at night."
Of course, if a baby only has 250 ml of milk taken during the day, at the time of dinner it is necessary to give milk yes or yes, unless the remaining 250 recommended are taken at night, which could also be. But a child who breastfeeds, a breastfed child, takes the 500, or whatever, throughout the day and night, over several shots, so it doesn't matter if he has dinner or not, because What if I don't feed him and I give him the food at night? What happens?
Among all this we explain that vegetables, meat, rice, chicken, tomato bread ("What? Do you give tomato?") And everything else he ate it with his hand, taking it and bringing it to his mouth because we had tried to give it to him in porridge and he had always rejected it, trying as a solution to take it that way. He was surprised that this was the case and then he recommended that we start giving him white fish, which we should gather it to the vegetable and then crush it. But didn't we just tell you that he doesn't even want to see the crushed? As it did not matter, in his manual there seemed to be nothing that said “you do the fish as you want, grilled, steamed or grilled and crumble it with the fingers so that it can eat it and to make sure that there are no thorns "
Summarizing
Anyway, I left without understanding that I could not drink oat milk when at six months everyone is recommended cereal with oatmeal, that I could not eat rice when many babies already take it at four, that I could not eat pasta, that It is still another cereal (it is wheat), which could not eat tomato, which they recommend in the vegetable porridge at six months, to congratulate Miriam for breastfeeding and then tell us that it was very, very important to start to drink dairy and I could not eat dinner until the year of life.
As I always say, I don't care because at the end of my house we do what we think is best, but what about all those mothers who go to the pediatrician and the nurse waiting to receive instructions on how to proceed from that moment and that Do they listen to everything they recommend? Not everything is wrong, of course, but surely many lactations go for a walk because of the feeding manual of many professionals.
