Dear Friends:

Nobody, or at least very few people, believe that a newly-delivered mother
has milk.

In my part of the world, a baby with low blood sugar is immediately given a
bottle of formula by the health care staff because "the baby HAS to be feed
right away." Physicians and nurses don't believe in newborn milk either!
 Never mind the reason that asymptomatic babies are tested for low blood
sugar. Never mind why babies with low blood sugars (usually measured by a
bedside screening device not meant to be diagnostic) are never put skin to
skin.

It isn't Asian peoples or Hispanic peoples or healthcare peoples...it seems
to be most people.

The notion that the new mother has no milk is reinforced by the phrase in
English "milk coming in."  Is that phrase used in other languages, where the
mother is deemed to be milkless until the milk arrives a few days after the
birth?

Yet the evidence shows us over and over and over that skin to skin and ad
lib suckling work. But then, why bother with evidence?

warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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