This is not a question for us.  This is a question for the hcp.  What reason
does s/he give for the mother to stop breastfeeding?   What evidence does
s/he have that it would hurt the baby more than artificial feeding would?
Nan Jolly M.B.B.Ch., LLLL
Port Elizabeth, South Africa


> a mother who has just had her third child with hemophilia.  The mother has
been breast and bottle feeding, but has
> become nervous about continuing to breastfeed b/c some BRILLIANT hcp told
> her it would hurt the baby.
> Lizabeth J. Berkeley, MPH, CHES, IBCLC

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