We had the most wonderful opportunity today! One of our pediatricians, 
(who is fairly new to practice and has already shown us some real lack of 
understanding about breastfeeding) had a 36 week baby today. 

The nurse working the delivery was ready to take FULL advantage of the 
situation.  The OB had taken his sweet time about getting the baby to mom 
( and insisted on having a weight first) so baby's temp was a bit low and 
sure enough, the initial blood sugar was 40. The RN discussed the 
situation with mom, assisted her with getting baby nursing and WALAA!!! 
the temp and blood sugar both came up and stabilized.

None of us were surprised, but we hope this will deepen this pediatrican 
mom's understanding of how important S2S and early nursing are.

Next, we'll try to make her understand that telling a mom to "pump and see 
how much milk you are getting" is just asking for trouble!

Deb Ray, RNC, IBCLC - slowly, slowly winning one battle at a time for 
breastfeeding babies.....

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