I don't understand the whole "Can't tell how much the baby is getting at the
breast" thing - do they not have a scale? What that says to me is "We don't
have the babie's best interests at heart - all we care about is what's
convenient for our staff" ... I'd like that nurses phone number please   :)

Back in 1982 when I was a pregnant 18 yr old, my Lamaze instructor gave me a
book to read about breastfeeding. The book described how I would have to
fight the hospital staff to keep them from giving my baby a bottle of
formula and how I would have to put my hands on my hands on my hips and
demand that my baby be breastfed! The book was quite an older book at that
time - written in the very early 70's, and do you know something? Nothing
has changed. What other area of maternal/child care has made such advances
(or lack of them) I'm not saying advances in breastfeeding have not been
made, only that we are not making great inroads into the way healthcare
providers and hospitals view formula feeding vs breastfeeding, In every
other clinical area - care is patient centered and patient directed. Why
then the not only dragging, but digging in of heels when it comes to
breastfeeding?

For the record, I didn't have to fight much - and nothing dampened my
determination - and this was an army hospital my daughter was born in.

Michelle Meeks, RN

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