Dear Lactnetters,  I missed Law and Order, good thing as I would have been on
my soap box again and my friends would have had to sit through another one on
my speeches. We utilize a Difficult Latch Feeding Plan when parents who are
going home have a baby who fails to either 1. latch well or 2. suckle
consistently at the breast for at least 10-15 minutes with frequent swallows.
 It includes info on supplementation with either EMM or formula by day three
of life if these 2 criteria have not been met, it also list wet/dirty
minimums. We usually end up seeing a lot of these babies as we have a  close
to 96% epidural rate, 40-50% forcep/vacuum rate and a 36%c/sec rate,
urgh....... Too bad the research for this episode was so poorly done. Perhaps
if they read lactnet they would see how much science goes into the process of
Lactation Consulting and we would have been portrayed differently. Ironic
isn't it, in this new Millineum where Holistic medicine is being accepted and
becoming mainstream, Breastfeeding is still on the stand having to be
defended as the preferred feeding method. What people won't do to assuage
lifetimes of pent up guilt. Anyways, We are trying to come up with a fussy
baby algorithim for breastfed babes as our post-partum nurses are becoming
frustrated with what to do with parents who request their babes be in the
nursery but not be allowed pacifiers. Any ideas. We already preach rooming
in, kangaroo care , swaddling, demand feeding , etc but our clients are often
well off and used to delegating every thing. Has anyone heard of a research
article about kangaroo care or carrying baby more often decreasing colic? I
remember hearing about one but don't know how to obtain it, TIA Lisa Mooney
RN IBCLC

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