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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Rant coming...
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When I gave birth I wanted to breast feed. I understand that it is the best alternative for a baby. I wasn't producing any milk and my baby was losing weight. After three days and working with lactations, I had a team of nurses come in my room and harass me because I was not feeding my son often enough and he was losing weight and hungry. The lactation nurses knew that we had a good latch and that we were making an effort, I wasn't producing anything. It took the Pediatrician handing me formula and saying there was nothing wrong with supplementing breast milk with formula to stop the insanity. I probably should have gone down that path earlier but C-section recovery and then hormones and sleep deprivation and I was not at the top of my game. Little Man breast feed and used formula and did just fine. But why the lactation staff never suggested formula when they knew I was feeding him regularly and he was losing weight is beyond me. And I am not the only one with a similar story.
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Obviously I don't know any of the back story but when I hear something like this my first thought is that the staff is too busy to know the individual patients involved ... and, in a hospital setting, that means they're
too darn busy.
There are good reasons to encourage breast feeding and vaginal birth, but their are also
individual circumstances that must be considered.