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Date: | Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:08:54 EDT |
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June, what an excellent posting. I have never understood why clinicians
feel more at ease when they see a mother is formula feeding. I say this in a
generalization because I do know many clinicians who don't think this way,
especially on this list.
I have to get on my soap box again and I am looking to this group to join
in. We have become such a "bottle" society that we assume that what has been
passed on for years is normal for babies but there has never been any science
to back their literature.
This includes feeding newborns 1/2 to 3 oz of formula every 3 hours as
"normal."
Assuming mothers know how to mix and feed formula (much less the health
care staff).
That babies need to sleep long periods at night within a couple months
old and if they don't then maybe the mothers need to add rice to the bottles
or other tricks.
My approach to some of these issues would demand that formula companies make
the bottles used in hospitals only contain 1 oz. This is still too much for
the newborn on day one but seeing the smaller amounts and lots of teaching,
hopefully they will start to give only 10-15 cc.
Demand that formula companies make videos, pamphlets and booklets on how to
properly mix formula. Describe the risks of mixing them wrong and how to
choose and purchase the water to mix formula.
Make health care providers take classes on how babies feed, the normal cues
to look for when feeding them, the physiology of suck/swallow/and breathing.
Until we demand the people who are pushing formula to prove that what they
do has science behind it, we will continue to butt our heads against the wall.
Stepping down off the soap box.
Ann Perry, RN IBCLC
Boston, MA
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