Let's not forget WHERE the baby is during these "routine blood glucose
tests".

How about requiring baby to be skin to skin on mom's chest at the time?  My
granddaughter sought comfort at the breast after every check (she was 10
lbs. 2 oz - 4.59K - at birth), and my daughter in law reported that she
breastfed much more often than her brother, who did not have them done...

Her blood sugars never went below the MD's limit - 44 - and then rose again
within 12 hours after birth.  

Had she not been there, not using up her calories to keep her own
temperature, and not using her calories to cry, and not releasing stress
hormones, I'm sure she would have been formula fed.

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
California, USA
(Who is glad to have had the presence of mind to give that recommendation to
her son when receiving the news that Erin was born...at 3 am my time!)

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