Rob writes:

"I went in to talk to the mom of a
48 hour old baby who was 90% of birth weight. Staff has trying
to help mom latch baby who was fussy and not attempting to
latch well."

What would help? Try skin to skin and bedding in, and lots of  *calm*
support for the mother...sometimes backing off like this and taking the
overt pressure off  has results in a very short time.  If she now doesn't
want to breastfeed then clearly the baby needs something - but it still
doesn't preclude skin-to-skin etc.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK