In the UK midwives in hospitals talk about mucousy babies, but no one feels
the need to do anything about it except wait!  I think it sometimes can
make it slightly more difficult to get bf underway,  but it is normally not
worth suctioning (which is rarely done here), surely.  And why would giving
glucose water or anything else get rid of the mucous?

Where's the physiological sense in it?

Sounds like 'we've always done it this way so we're gonna carry on doing it
this way.'

Giving glucose or anything else is an intervention, and it is up to the
interveners to demonstrate they are doing no harm...there is a ton of
evidence, epidemiological and physiological, that giving anything instead
of breastmilk in the early days intereferes with the establishment of happy
bf - so why do it?

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne