Dear friends, Several years ago, I, as a staff nurse, got the brush off from a pt. with 35-36 gestation twins and a c/s. This is not meant to be a negative comment, only a statement of fact: The pt. had been very active in LLL and refused my help. She said something about hospitals usually do harm with breastfeeding. Little did she know I was the most breast-feeding friendly nurse on the floor that evening! Sure enough, 2 days later the peds doc made the call that the babies were losing too much weight and ordered formula. One twin did eventually nurse well, but the other twin never did and was bottle fed ebm. We did not have a lactation program yet, and no LC to work with the mom and doc for an acceptable feeding plan to both. These poor moms who come in to the hospital on the defensive from the beginning. Susan in Minnesota rn ibclc ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html