MotherWear Podcast Interview with…ME!
Hey all, I wanted to share this:Motherwear Podcast: Heather Cushman-Dowdee, creator of Hathor the Cowgoddess.
and to repost a classic comic:
This Comic is related to the comics: Hey My Doctor is a Joke! and My Doctor is a Joke #60000!
And the musing: Want to Read More about the Doctor Joke?
Because I’m having one of those weeks…preparing for the Trust Birth Conference (You should Come!) and worrying about my mother who’s in the hospital (diabetes complications with her feet) and you know, being a fabulous mom. I hope to have a new comic in a couple of days!
xox,
Heather
yvetteyasui said,
March 4, 2008 @ 2:07 am
We are right there with you.
I picked up my son from school crying, complaining of an earache. He was in real pain so we drove to the doctor’s office without an appt. She was nice enough to see us right away, but then perscripbed ANTI-BIOTICS (we don’t like) and said we should give him lots of POPSICLES and SODA to keep his liquids up. And we may want to consider SURGERY to remomve a thingy that is possibly but not conclusively blocking something else which if we don’t do, he will grow out of in a year of so.
Hmmmm, elective surgery or allowing my son to grow up without invasive medical procedures or anti-biotics for every little thing. You may be asking yourself, why the hensbasket did we go to the doctor anyway? Mostly so she would use her opthascope with a light to look at my son’s ear, see how bad the infection was. After this visit, my husband said he was ordering one right away from Amazon so we could save ourselves from unnecessary exposure to the ANTI-BIOTIC-POPSICLE-SODA-SURGERY wielding doctor.
mairead said,
March 4, 2008 @ 5:02 am
hi all
my sister in law has a 2 yr old boy who she is concerned has adhd…
some reasons being he does not listen, he is into everything, if they go to a restaurant he will not sit down for a meal, he is not talking alot yet but his hearing has been tested and is fine. i spoke with her yesterday and let her know what i believed …he is a very smart boy, and all the above listed is not unlike your typical child of 2.when he is with my twin 3 yr old girls and 8 yr old son he gets along phenomenally well with them if there is any “issue” its usually one of my girls hee hee!, that parenting is very challenging and considering number 2 came along when he was only 14 mos that its an even bigger challenge and its easy to expect more of him as he is the big brother though only 2. does anyone have any websites she could chat on or feedback? thanks so much …love to you hathor hope your mum will be wellxox
amyphilo said,
March 4, 2008 @ 6:39 am
mairead, please please please do everything you can to help your sister fight back against the bs drugging for your nepew
www.adhdfraud.com
www.chaada.org
www.uniteforlife.org
go to youtube.com/amyphilo and watch all my videos
You do not want him to wind up like Rebecca Riley, Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain, etc. or like any of the hundreds or thousands of children who died from drug-induced suicide / homicide, or drug toxicity. ADHD is just another label that leads to death, with the drugs being too dangerous to accept.
baby crying… email me at amy@uniteforlife.org
Heather my dad has diabetes too.. I hope your mom is ok
amyphilo said,
March 4, 2008 @ 6:41 am
” why the hensbasket did we go to the doctor anyway? Mostly so she would use her opthascope with a light to look at my son’s ear, see how bad the infection was. After this visit, my husband said he was ordering one right away from Amazon so we could save ourselves from unnecessary exposure to the ANTI-BIOTIC-POPSICLE-SODA-SURGERY wielding doctor.”
hee hee hee
wiffersnapper said,
March 4, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Again, I am so GLAD that we have a minimally invasive, wait-and-see, breastfeeding-supporting doctor! After the nightmare of my daughter’s (hospital) birth, it was so nice to go to him and have him say, “You’re doing everything just right. Keep it up and she’ll be fine! Just let her nurse whenever she wants…” He hardly ever prescribes anything, unless it’s truly serious, (and he’ll explain it all to me) which makes me trust him even more. (The irony is, he’s an older doctor, which you’d think would make him more medicalized. But he trusts his instincts and mine more than most!)
These doctors are as rare as hen’s teeth, but they do exist!
ethele said,
March 4, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
We seem to have unusually good luck with doctors. The only prescription I’ve ever given to the girls was Nystatin - for thrush. When my one-year-old daughter kept getting sick and dropped 15 percentiles on the weight charts from 6 illnesses in 3 months, my doctor’s advice for her was, “breastfeed her twin a minute or so on her side before you nurse her, so she gets more hind milk instead of foremilk. Normally I’d suggest using a pump, but since you have another baby, why go through the hassle?” This is for a child who was eating plenty of solids, btw - the doctor still looked to breastmilk as the way to health. Then we switched pediatricians because we moved - and we’ve taken the girls in several times with fevers, mostly for a symptom check to make sure that it was *just* a fever / the flu / a cold something normal. And always get great, common sense advice on ways to keep the fever down and to use over-the-counter meds if any medications at all.
I think it’s this part of the country. King County, WA, has the highest (or 2nd highest, don’t recall) breastfeeding rates of any county in the US. And people are generally very health-concious.
Wow . . . just looked up the CDC geographic data. http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/NIS_data/2004/state.htm
King County, Washington had 42.5 percent of babies born in 2004 breastfeeding at 12 months. I’m proud to live here. Now if only housing weren’t so expensive.
http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/NIS_data/data_2004.htm lots of neat charts here
wiffersnapper said,
March 5, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
As a teacher, I will say that I think ADHD is vastly over-treated. A lot of people don’t put the time into disciplining their kids when they’re little, and then they wonder why the kids act like loony tunes when they’re older. Also, if you don’t give them experiences (like eating in a family-friendly restaurant) when they’re small and make it very clear what you expect, then they won’t know what to do, even at the age of 3. Our daughter has been going out with us since she was a month old, and she thinks nothing of sitting in the Olive Garden and eating politely. Top that off with folks who have unreasonable expectations of how a child should behave, and you have a recipe for disaster. “There must be something wrong with him!”
Also, any doctor who gives a kid under the age of about 8 a prescription for ADHD should have his license revoked, and most of them just won’t do it. All that does is convince the kid that he CAN’T possibly control himself without medication, thereby setting him up for future drug use. Not a road I want my kid on, for sure!
soulgasm said,
March 6, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
I taught for a year in a school for dyslexic and unmedicated ADHD children. It’s amazing what proper training and more importantly, proper diet can do for a kid. I had one student, a 9 year old who I could tell within 2 minutes of class if he had eaten breakfast. he usually did not, and we might spend ten minutes just getting his paper headed with his name and date. all he ever ate was things like cheerios, plain noodles, chicken nuggets, and pizza. no green things ever, no fruits.
I had another student, a 6 year old who would have been labeled “unteachable” 30 years ago. he went to an allergist before summer session and went on an intense elimination diet. he could only eat like 4 things and then gradually added things back to watch his reaction. he was like a different child over the summer, all smiles and hard work, where as before he would dawdle and whine and put himself down all day.
A third student had severe anger issues, had been expelled from 3 schools (he was 9). turns out he had a sensitivity to aspertame. he was off it for awhile and did better, but started backsliding. his mom realized he’d been having a lot of aspertame (he was staying with grandparents so he could attend our school). after that he had a really really awful week of withdrawals, and then started doing better. by years end, i was so proud of him. he used to pitch a temper tantrum and bang his head on the wall over things like the zipper on his pencil case getting stuck. at the end of the year we were working on an art project, weaving, and he started getting really frustrated. i told him how hard it was for me to learn that, and that i never even finished mine when i was his age. he actually took his home and finished it for homework, and was the first one done in the class.
Also, i used to baby sit 2 boys, 9 and 13 who were medicated for adhd and clearly did not need it. mom bought them mountain dew and pepsi to take their meds with, and came home with fast food for dinner every night, which they ate in their respective rooms that were filled with every game console ever made, plus tv’s, computers and dvd players. the younger one came up with every excuse he could think of to spend time with mom, like going shopping for a particular manga that could only be found at the bookstore on the other side of town. mom always told me to take him, and he always just looked at the floor and said never mind. the older one liked nothing more than to sit in the living room with me and discuss politics (the Daily Show!) and music. i really think they got more attention for me in the 3 hours after school i was there than they did in a month from mom and dad.
and people wonder what’s wrong with the world these days.
esper_d said,
March 9, 2008 @ 12:08 am
Wow! (is all I have to say)
thanks
juliepie said,
April 1, 2008 @ 7:36 am
This is why I love my ped. He never criticizes the weights of my babies, and encourages lots and lots of nursing.
Also, when I brought my 3yo in for his annual, he put my son’s height and weight into the computer and started to laugh. He told me “Well, according to THIS your son is obese. But, as you and I can tell by LOOKING AT HIM his is very much not so. You feed him good foods and he’s healthy, and that’s what matters.”
stefiko said,
June 7, 2008 @ 5:15 am
Hi there,
I’m from Germany, graduated last June from Medical University and gave birth in November to my beautiful little baby boy - in an anthroposophical hospital, with my own midwife. I had visited a lot of other hospitals before and was really scared at the end. In one, I asked if they are usually waiting till the pulsation of the umbilical chord has stopped before cutting it (less risk of anemia for the baby) and they said no, we’re not doing this usually, you would have to say this again during birth. Well, I expected to be too busy during birth to fight with stupid old-fashioned doctors, so I went to this more alternative hospital which I liked very much.
Breast-feeding advice by my midwife was not the best (sore nipples - aaaahrg), but we got over that. So, at five months I take my baby to the pediatrician, my baby is exclusively breastfed and we talk about baby’s nutrition. And this guy tells me that breast-feeding is bad for the mother-child relationship and for the personality of the child as soon as the child starts walking and talking. Great. I asked him where he went to university and if they were not told to follow the World Health Organization’s guidelines there. He seemed to be a bit pissed
I wonder what all those mothers do who are not searching the web for accurate and new information about child-rearing - trust the doc?!
At the moment I am in Georgia (Caucasus, near to Russia) with my Georgian husband and sometimes I think I am the only breast-feeding woman in town - or definitely the only one who is feeding her baby in parks (decently covered, of course). Everybody else was told that their milk was not enough…