Lactnuts
In my part of the world this wish to breast and formula feed from day
one is fairly common. If the family has come to a prenatal class this is
usually not a desire as they have been educated about the undesirability
of this. I go thru the whole spiel about exclusive bf, consequences of
suppl. etc. when I meet the mom in labor if she has had no prenatal
prep. We have an infant feeding preference card which they fill out
prenatally (check off if you want no water given, no pacifiers, no free
samples, or you do want that given) and this card gives a very brief
paragraph on advantages and disadvantages of all of this. I do not find
this is adequate at all. I try to help with whatever difficulty the mom
is having and I go thru the whole song and dance when on day 2 she says
she wants to breast/bottle feed.
What I am asking is this: is there a written booklet, handout sheet,
whatever that deals with this? What I am ready to do is say here, read
this and let me know your decision (because I have already gone thru it
all with her). We do not have signed, informed consent - yet - altho one
of our mgrs has talked about this after she went to a bf conference.
Any suggestions? Can you tell I had a bad week with lots of
mismanagement to fix and bf challenges? Oh well, I know that's what I'm
there for!

Laurie Wheeler, RN, MN, IBCLC
Violet Louisiana, USA
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