Dear Friends,

I have recently earned my RN and started working in a maternity ward after
12 years of working in the community.  Unfortunately, on our ward, babies
and mothers are separated from 11 pm to 5 am.  Any mother that requests to
be woken up to breastfeed her baby will be.   Unfortunately many mothers
choose to have the nurses formula feed her baby at night.  Also many babies
are "topped up" with formula during the day, again, at mother's request
because mother lacks confidence in her ability to feed her baby enough.
These babies take in what seems to me to be very large amounts of formula
or in a good case, expressed breast milk..
 I have 2 questions;
how much should a newborn be taking in on day 2? According to Nancy
Mohrbacher's Your Newborns Stomach - Day 1 - 10, a newborn should take in
5-7 ml on day one and 22-27 on day 3. What about day 2?
Also, I wonder about the effects of overfeeding babies on future
breastfeeding. There is no way that a mother can compete with the flow and
amount of these bottle feeds in the first few days. Is there any good
research on the effects of overfeeding babies during their first few days
of life?  If so, please send me links... so I can present it to the rest of
the staff.

Thank you so much,
All the best,

Chayn Nancy Fogelman IBCLC, RN, Israel


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