In regards to eating meat

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My issue with nutritional schooling arose after my experience in the NICU.

Well, the NICU is definitely going to be a bastion of establishment and fear-based medicine. Those docs and nurses tend to be more concerned with keeping lawsuits away than what is truly best for a baby... but also with good reason as so many Americans are sue happy. Not all babies make it. This is a very sad, but true, fact of life. Especially sad if one believes that was the soul's one and only shot at taking on a physical form.

Having been browbeaten for weeks to allow them to feed my daughter powdered fortifier.

When and where was this?

Constant harassment and guilt trips.

Sounds like some fairly unevolved sorts of caretakers.

In about a week she stopped breathing, and developed that necrotitis or whatever. I did a search for week/necrotitis and found a ton of mothers that had gone through the same thing, the exact problem, at the exact same period of introducing the formula.

Good thing you found that!

It took another week before she stabilized, and the calls and browbeating resumed. The nutritional doc finally gave up after I brought in a printed copy from the FDA website, from years earlier, stating that it was not safe to give the stuff to preemies. I also printed the big warning from the makers website, explaining that even though it is formulated for preemies, it is not safe for preemies.

At the risk of sounding offensive, these people sound like idiots to me. I find it unfortunate that we live in a society whereby these types are allowed to take positions of authority.

After telling me that there were no specific mineral supplements alone that we could use, and that the only option was fortifier, the doctor refused to deal with us any longer and we ended up with a Hindu doctor. He said we were correct in everything we were doing, and came up with the exact minerals needed, and things went well from there.

Was he an Avuyvedic practitioner? Or..?

One of the things I noticed is that the mothers intuition means nothing in the medical field, there is only standard care.

This is definitely not the case in naturopathic medicine- a field which is largely dominated by intuitive motherly types!

My wife had repeatedly asked for a smaller bottle nipple to make it easier for her to swallow, while they told us there was only the one size available. Our daughter spent extra time in the NICU because they said her heart would stop during swallow. After a battery of tests, and a bunch of X-rays during swallow, they told me they needed to switch to a smaller nipple because the big gulp would press against her heart as it went down.

I'm sorry to hear you had to deal with this institution. Was there no other option at the time?

Pretty much the whole ordeal was a fight to get her out of the building with the least amount of harm. I found afterwards that the standard of care sets up our children for cancer and other health issues when they get older.

Yes. "Standard of care" is a binding legal term which refers to the consensus view among one's peers. If an MD does not follow standard of care (ie do what everybody else is doing) then they are exposing themselves to liability should something turn for the worse.

Or even beyond that, if things should just turn out as they simply do. It is a sad situation for all sides, but most Americans have this unreasonable expectation that refuses to accept the reality that some babies do not make it. So they need somebody to blame. And, apparently a sizeable check for the "pain and suffering" that the Creator's creation has created for them as catalyst.

Others would have society or "the government" foot the bill for untold millions of dollars of treatments employing technologies to keep a baby alive that wouldn't otherwise make it in the world. Unfortunately, these people seem to have difficulty perceiving that "the government" is just proxy for their neighbor. Things aren't really "free" in this life. Somebody has to pay for them.

The nutritional expert even told us that our decisions will guarantee eye problems, lung problems, bone problems, and brain issues.

Specifically what decisions supposedly guarantee this? Not using fortified powders? Or?

For some reason she has no problems at all, as compared to the norm.

Great to hear that expert was wrong!