Dear Friends:
    I posted yesterday about the mother who had weaned after 2 days. I made
the home visit today. She decided to keep the baby on formula; she had nursed
her first child for a month, and weaned to formula when that first baby 'got
fussy'. Formula works wonders. Baby chugs down 4 ounces every 3 hours, and the
mother is happy.
    DAMN!
    She does switch sides for each feeding, and never props the bottle. She
was using soy formula; I recommended Good Start as that is the only formula
with any evidence behind it (the 5-year Chandra study), plus little mammals
should at least get mammal milk and not plant products.
    However, I feel good that at least I spoke truth to her. So she has made
her choice.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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