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Sigh.  Yes, some babies should be waked

says Rachel.

I tend to agree. In the UK we are seeing something of
pendulum-swinging-the-other-way effect in some maternity units.

Understandably anxious to get away from regimes which have babies
pricked for blood sugars for no good reason, which have babies rammed
onto breasts, or topped up with formula if they haven't fed within a
designated time or often enough,  a few units and HCPs in them and in
the community are now *too* relaxed about sleepy babies (nearly
always drugged and/or  separated babies)...some mothers are being
assured that it doesn't matter if the baby doesn't feed for ages and
ages, even if the baby is in a crib.

The result of this can sometimes be a bf crisis a few days later.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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