Breastfeeding For Dads

Wellington Gray's Miscellanea is one of my favorite online comic strips, the intelligent comments to the bureaucratic idiocy we see in every day life prove to be a great relief to the humdrum.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, who I alternately loathe and rejoice, have recently changed some of their guidelines for avoiding childhood allergies, again, to now say (paraphrase) "exclusively breastfeed for at least three months, nothing else seems to really make a difference." Of course BF4Dads recommends at least six months of exclusive breastfeeding, avoiding formula entirely (pump & freeze some if you need to store up for emergencies) and start off on regular food, skip that over-processed special baby food crap.

The FDA is finally realizing that many parents, and many more pediatricians & nurses, promote the use of over-the-counter cold and cough drugs for just about any ailment children (even babies) develop, from the usual coughs, to minor temperatures, to cuts & scrapes, to simply having a difficult time sleeping - unfortunately I hear the last one way too often. So the FDA has finally gotten the cojones to warn against giving these drugs to any child under the age of 2.

I'm going to start posting here again. An experience today reminded me how much sites like this were needed in the world.