>Yes, I agree that the pumping  and cup feeding isn't really necessary  in
>all likelihood but the doctors in the practice become concerned at a 7% loss
>and recommend supplementation then, most often with formula.


Aha!

So this is a treatment for the *doctors*, not the mother or the baby.



Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor

(not being critical of you, Valerie, but showing sympathy for the 
conditions under which you work, wherein your client becomes the 
medical practice, and not the breastfeeding couplet)

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