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>What is going on with the baby is that he is starving and so naturally the doctor is eager to put a stop to that situation.  I can't really argue with giving formula to a baby who is below birthweight 8 weeks out - regardless of what the underlying problem is, this baby needs to be fed and now and it doesn't really matter much how the food gets into him.  There are so many things that could be going on here, but "FEED THE BABY" would be the first step.   If the mom wants to find an IBCLC, she can go to www.ilca.org and hit the button for "Find a Lactation Consultan" but I can't imagine any LC not insisting on getting additional food into the baby as Step #1.
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I agree that any baby who needs food should be fed!  I don't know enough 
about whether the milk transfer in this case is sufficient (after asking 
her to clarify, she said the number of wet diapers was ok both with or 
without supplements) and I certainly did not tell her to not supplement 
the baby.  I *did* tell her that there were more breastfeeding friendly 
ways of doing so (since the baby is nursing well) like the SNS and I 
also said that pumping or just nursing 5 minutes when she could be 
nursing longer (assuming the baby is actually transferring the milk 
well...but given his wet diaper count I assume probably he was) would 
just diminish her production long-term.

:-)

I certainly hope they get to the bottom of this.

Fio

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