Soooo

A mom who REALLY wants to succeed with breastfeeding this time (her first
baby received breast milk from a bottle for MONTHS due to refusing to
breastfeed) had a baby with problems with respirations, (2.5 weeks early???)
on CPAP, etc.  She has requested that the nurses not use bottles - tube
feeding when she is not there to breastfeed (night feeding).  However, they
won't release the baby to mom until she can take in all her calories orally
- so the nurses are pushing her to accept the use of bottles "so you can
take her home"

I'm sure she'll agree to the bottles - in the hopes things can be "fixed"
once she gets home.  I can't really blame her! Mom has been told the baby
must be kept on a q 3 hour feeding schedule with feedings that should last
no more than 15 minutes.  

We are told to consider oral feeding with a bottle as "normal" feeding - and
breastfeeding as "extra" and "more difficult" and "exhausting for the baby."


What is a mother to do?   

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC

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