Re: Protein? Pre-term delivery with twins-let's not be so quick to judge

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Telling a woman who is justifiably concerned about the viability of her twins at 24.5 weeks that she can prevent early delivery through protein consumption is the part I have a problem with. Declaring that every pregnant woman carrying twins that she knows has kept them to full term by eating protein - now that smacks of quackery to me. So, HOW many pregnant women carrying twins has she personally known? And she knows for a fact that they delivered full term BECAUSE of protein? And she has WHAT factual evidence to support her assertion that protein will enable this woman to carry her twins to term? I think it is completely irresponsible to imply that protein is the solution to this woman's concerns - our "child birth educator" has no access to her medical history, no clinical evidence to support her assertion, and is completely ignoring the very real mitigating conditions that can affect twin pregnancies. So, if this woman delvers her twins at 30 weeks is it because she didn't care enough about her diet? Is protein the solution to all PTL? Gosh, what a breakthrough - I can't believe the medical establishment hasn't picked up on this yet!!!

Furthermore, the original poster's doc gave her 4-6 weeks to deliver, for reasons that she did not elaborate on. She was concerned about the viability of the babies, and what their chances of survival will be. She did not ask for a lecture about Hope's opinions on keeping the pregnancy term. Hope tends to grab other people's posts to deliver her own philosophies on "childbirth education." Feel free to search the archives for "chilbirth educator" to find more of her ideas. I would be less concerned if she began her posts with "I've heard that.." or "I've read that..." or even "You might want to ask your doctor about..." instead of just delivering these diagnoses as though she were actually a qualified medical professional.

>>An excellent way to prevent early delivery is excellent nutrition
>>throughout pregnancy. Especially having enough protein. ...
>>Every mother i've ever known with twins kept them full term if they
>>chowed down on the protein.

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At Fri, 31 Jan 2003, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>I guess I just don't think telling someone "eat more protein" is bad
>advice! Sheesh, any OB worth his or her salt will tell a woman pregnant
>with twins that she needs to eat a lot of protein.  That is not
>quackery! Granted, I didn't see any other responses from Hope the
>Childbirth Educator -- and maybe some of them were sheer quackery (can
>you provide examples?) -- but the one I saw about protein was perfectly
>responsible.
>

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