Thank you Rachel for your very sensible post.   "The people who have responded to your post are some of the most sensible,
> 
> experienced people on this list, and they are unanimous in saying 'this baby
is NOT GETTING FED ENOUGH'.  

 If I were seeing this baby I would be having a serious discussion with all the health care providers involved and if that mother were not taking measures to ensure the baby was properly fed, I would have a duty to report to the Children's Aid.   I have only ever done that once and it was a great relief to me when I knew that baby was being properly cared for.       Rachel is right---This is a disaster.    There is a possibility that baby has some underlying disease process going on which prevents weight gain.   Perhaps the mother has a severe postpartum depression which manifests itself in an inability to see her baby is starving.    Whatever is going on , this is totally beyond the professional capabilities of an IBCLC.      Please get help for this baby before there is irreparable damage.      Eileen

Eileen Ahearn Shea, BSc, IBCLC
Clinical Lecturer,  Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University  Faculty of Medicine
Hamilton, Ontario


On 2011-07-21, at 7:39 PM, Rachel Myr wrote:
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