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Date: | Sat, 15 May 2004 10:02:04 -0400 |
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Martha,
I don't like to see babies wait even 24 hours for food. I ask mothers
to hand express colostrum onto a teaspoon every hour or two and feed
that to the baby if baby has not latched in 6 hours, then try latching
again. This: starts stimulating the milk supply (Barbara Wilson Clay
shared some research that significant calibration of milk supply starts
earlier than we thought- by day 2), keeps the baby energetic enough to
work for feeds, shows mom that the baby "likes her milk". Once there is
a color change, I recommend moms start pumping.
If we wait to do anything until 24-48 hours of age, baby has greater
chance of crashing, and many mothers have a hard time pumping colostrum
then after no stimulation in the hospital. Then we'd need to use
formula, as most of our hospitals don't have donor milk available.
I see the results of waiting too long to feed babies. The babies who
did not get fed in the hospital tend to be in lousy shape when I see
them on day 2 or 3 in private practice.
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Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC New York City mailto:[log in to unmask]
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