>I see such cases too and it terrifies me very much. E.g. on the bulletin
>board of the homepage of the dutch bf organization "Borstvoeding
>Natuurlijk" there is a woman who asks if she should be worried. A nurse
>from the check-up centers sent her home the baby who is 2 weeks old , below
>birth weigth, and NOT GAINING WEIGTH AT ALL in the last week, just with the
>message: "come back next week".  This mother writes the baby nurses every 4
>hour and not at nigth. So, the baby nurses 4 or 5 times every day. The
>mothers thinks she shouldn't be worried since her baby is so
>'content'.......
>
>Who can read Dutch can check it out on:
>http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/6929 (the thread called "Eet goed, komt
>niet aan, toch tevreden....? ").
>
>Of course I wrote her her child should gain more and to nurse much more
>often, etc.
>
>These people think they are bf friendly by not suggesting supplementing,
>but are terrible ignorant. brrr.


We have the same situation here, Annelies. They pride themselves on saying
'breast is best' and 'feed your baby when he asks' and not 'give a
bottle'.....but they cannot recognise when the mother needs good
information to increase her milk supply.   It is frightening, and we have
had a number of cases locally, according to our  local head of children's
nursing, when babies have been readmitted to hospital with dehydration. Of
course then bf gets blamed....not the terrible information the mother has
had.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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