Dear Friends:

Here is the current mess....how many countries would have mothers asking for
help because their baby is a mammal? And how to help this mother? Tell her
the doctor is an idiot? Ask her if she started physical therapy now, the
baby would walk sooner?

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"My five-week old daughter has both feeding and sleeping issues. The past
couple of days she seems to get hungry (crying hungry) after 2.5 hrs instead
of 3. That’s with, at the doctor’s instructions, after feeding her for 10
solid (active) minutes at EACH breast. I have continued to feel like my milk
just does not sustain her. Prior to the past couple of days, she’d have
feeding marathons where I’d nurse for an hour and a half. The doctor told me
basically to stop being a human pacifier. The doctor also seems to think my
daughter really should be on a schedule now…no more on demand feeding but at
set times each day. You can’t really do that with a 2.5 hour schedule. Any
advice?
Her sleeping issues are that basically she doesn’t unless you are holding
her or she has been supplemented (sometimes 1 oz., sometimes a bit less than
2 oz.) with formula. I am not comfortable with co-sleeping, but it seems
letting her sleep on my or my husband’s chest is the only way we can get any
rest.Help."
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I feel that we also have to combat the notion 'doctor is the absolute
ultimate authority' that is deeply ingrained in western medicine.

sadly,
-- 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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