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I wanted to relate a story from a mom I am working with. This is a single
mom, 45 years old who got pregnant through IVF. She really wants to
breastfeed her baby but is a bit nervous and her support is some friends who come by
occasionally and her sister is coming in a couple of weeks. She is basically
on her own right now.
In the hospital her baby boy was very sleepy. There were documented a
couple good nursings but I never observed them. I had mom hand expressing and
either letting her baby lick the colostrum or did some spoon feeding with her
milk. Her baby's birth weight was 7-1 and discharge weight at 2 days old was
6-11. Two days later at the pediatrician's office the baby weighed 6-11.
Mom has been calling me with concerns on how long it takes her baby to latch
(any where from 30-45 minutes). Once the baby latches he nurses well and
comes off content. He is nursing on average 9 times a day and having 4-5
large, yellow, seedy stools.
She came in for an outpatient visit on the sixth day postpartum just prior
to returning to her pediatrician's for another weight check. The mother told
me that the pediatrician was suggesting that she might have to give formula
if the baby did not gain. She also told the mom she should not be nursing
more than every 3 hours.
We worked to get the baby latching better and nursing well.
The mom called me after her pediatrician appointment. The baby weighed
6-12. I had explained to the mom that the usual weigh gain is 0.5 - 1.0 oz/day.
The mom states the pediatrician did not think this was good enough and wants
her to come back on Monday. The mom describes that she was brought to one
of the exam rooms for the visit and the pediatrician asked her to breastfeed.
The little boy latched well and nursed well so the pedi left her alone so he
could finish. Mom told me as she sat there she started to notice her
surroundings. All over the room there was bottles of formula and advertisements
from formula companies. This is mom's own comments "I now understand why my
pediatrician was so eager to have me use formula."
I gave her reassurance she and her baby are doing well and have told her we
will have a follow up visit next week.
Once this mom is feeling like she has her feet on the ground I will ask her
to contact some of our legislature with impending bills, telling this story so
they can understand the influence the formula industry has on providers.
Ann Perry, RN IBCLC
Boston, MA
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