"He "couldn't"  go to the breast because they needed to "measure" his
intake."

And where, pray, are the references that say that "they" need to measure the
intake of a baby with meconium aspiration?  And if it *were* necessary, why
a bottle?  Why not a cup?  But it occurs to me that if this baby could drink
from a bottle, he wasn't really very sick, was he?  In which case, there is
no justification for "needing to know how much he got", even if there
*might* be for a baby with a respiratory rate of 100.  (Making sure he
doesn't go into congestive heart failure).  And if he wasn't that sick, he
could go to the breast.

We always get off the track by being asked references for something that is
patently obvious. After all, physicians, in general, believe the breast is
empty after a feeding, no matter what many of us say.  So why not "empty"
the breast and give the breastmilk with a lactation aid?  Why does anyone
need a reference for that?

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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