But Righard's research found that it took an *average* of 50 minutes for
babies to attach??? That's a lot that took more than an hour unless the SD
was very samall (can't find the damn paper in the pile!)
It seems to me that taking the baby away and handing the mum a pump after an
hour is a very bad idea.
Karleen Gribble
AUstralia
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>
> But when to intervene?  Well, if it's been an unmedicated birth and the
baby isn't latching yet, we have every reason to believe that he will.
Interventions can wait.  If it's a medicated delivery and the baby latches,
we have every reason to believe he will continue to do so.  Interventions
can wait.  But if it's a medicated delivery *and* the baby doesn't latch
during that first hour (and seems unlikely to), we've just been handed two
strong pieces of evidence that problems are likely.  I'd say go get that
early bolus of colostrum while it's there to be gotten, and thus maybe stave
off the use of formula later in the day...
>

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