Doctors said to be concerned about her weight loss
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Nicole Richie has been ordered to switch her daughter to bottle feeding – because the The Simple Life star is losing too much weight.
Doctors are said to be concerned that she’s become too skinny since giving birth to Harlow Winter, 6 months, reports the Daily Star.
Breastfeeding burns vast amounts of calories and it seems it's been taking its toll on tiny Nicole.
Nicole, 26, gave birth in January with fiancé Joel Madden, 29, by her side.
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Breast milk helps protect babies against many devastating diseases, and infections, through the vital immunities. Even certain childhood cancers and juvenile diabetese, (a devastating disease that can even BLIND a child) are less frequent in breast fed children. She should be told to continue breast feeding and eat more healthy food. As a former children'f nurse, I'm well aware of this.
I was about 116-120 pre-pregnancy and now hover at about 110-113 post-pregnancy. At 5'10 that would be considered by many to be "too thin". For someone with a fast metabolism whose baby also has a fast metabolism and thus consumes around the clock, it probably does use up more than 500 calories a day. I stay healthy by consuming whole milk yogurt, high calorie shakes, and a lot of healthy fats such as salmon and avocado. That's how I stay at the 110-113 weight range, otherwise I'm sure I'd be smaller. HOWEVER... I'm sure Nicole has more going on than just simple breastfeeding. Often postpartum depression or B12 deficiency can manifest itself in anorexia (not anorexia-to-be-thin but anorexia-food-aversion) and that can result in rapid weight loss. Simply stopping breastfeeding won't bring that weight back. Particularly if it's due to anorexia or postpartum depression. In fact, if it's PPD, weaning will make it worse.
This is just bad advice. She should have been given info on how to improve her own diet not told to quit breastfeeding. As her child is now 6months old solids would be introduced and the amount of breastfeeds reduced taking the pressure off Nicole anyway. Unfortunately many medics are just not trained indepth enough on the subject of human lactation - its about time the subject was included for all on the school curriculum to alter the many incorrect perceptions and breastfeeding myths held by many in the current culture of formula feeding being the 'norm'.
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