Dear all
I have two questions to pose on wildly differing, fairly benign topics.
(1) Do you think it is a good idea to give Moms, on discharge, charts to
check off so they can count newborns' pees and poops? It seems every single
Mom on the postpartum floor (slight exaggeration)(very slight) thinks she
is not giving her baby enough milk and wants to supplement. So I am
thinking of writing up a 'How to Know Your Baby's Eating Enough' handout
including a chart, but I'm torn between thinking they would get a great
sense of wellbeing from checking off pees and poops on a piece of
paper/knowing baby was being well fed  ... and fearing that I would be
undermining their confidence by making them chart and check everything
their baby does. Any comments?
(2) When I am demonstrating something to a Mom I constantly find myself
grabbing hold of my breast and waving it around. Do the rest of you use
those little cloth breasts to show individual Moms how to hand express, for
example? I am new at doing this on a daily basis and remembered one day, as
I was standing there, breast in hand, that when I was BFing my 1st an LC
did this and I thought she was SO weird. But then those little cloth
breasts look pretty weird too. Suggestions?
Anne Merewood