This was on another list im on.......

"However, as a night nurse, when a woman has been up in labor all night,
had
company all day, and has a sleeping baby, I won't wake the baby up (and
ultimately the mother) for the baby to "try" to feed unless it has been
upwards
of 5 hours since the last attempt.  Most of the time, if you wake up a
baby in
the first 24 hours to feed, it wakes up the mother and the baby falls
asleep at
the breast while the mother has her eyelids propped open with
toothpicks.  Not
really the experience to make her want to continue to nurse, is it??
One of our
LC's says "it is not our priority to let the mother rest before she goes
home,
we NEED to TEACH her to feed her baby".  My feeling is that we can teach
her how
to do it so well that we make her give it up before she has a chance to
see how
she will like it, especially the parents that are somewhat ambiguous
about their
method of feeding--we should encourage the breastfeeding by giving the
mother
all of the information we can, and then letting her set the rules, or
she will
not play the game.
I know what all of the literature says, and I am not debunking it, but
in the
real world, unless you support the mother to nurse on her terms, more
than
likely she will quit. So, try to get the baby to nurse, nurse, nurse
during the
daytime hours, and allow for some rest at night.  We want the baby to
learn that
nighttime is for sleeping anyway, don't we?""

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