Pat Gima told the story of:

> I asked
> if it was lumpy before heating and she told me that she didn't have to heat
> it because she hadn't refrigerated it. (!) I asked what it said on the can
> and she said that on top of the can it didn't say to refrigerate it, but as
> she read from the side of the can it said "Refrigerate and use within 48
> hours." She had not seen this earlier.
>
> This woman is a college graduate and seems to have a reasoning capacity.
> But she is newly postpartum and is stuggling with her milk supply and
> obviously not thinking clearly.
>
> Since she was giving the same formula that the hospital was using and they
> didn't refrigerate theirs, she assumed that it didn't need to be
> refrigerated.
>
> Most people believe that everyone knows how to prepare infant formula but
> such is not the case.  I have had clients who purchased concentrated
> product and gave it to the baby as is.
>
>

Reinforces my opinion that bottle feeding mothers need just as much time, if
not more, spent w/ them to teach them correct formula feeding as
breastfeeding mothers.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Wheaton IL

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