Apparently the hardest people to change to breastfeeding by demand are NICU
staff.

Nurses (and may be other HCP's) by nature (long story you need to read up
on sociology) need security and routines.  This organising trend is one way
of keeping their psyche intact (I am a midwife/nurse and have my 50 spice
jars labelled alphabetically).

I too have been speaking to NICU nurses recently and described an example
of a baby nearly crawling up its isolette it was so hungry.  I tried to
comfort parents in the lane outside the hospital, because the doc refused
to feed the baby more often than three hourly.  We did persuade the doc to
give the baby more at each feed however.

Demand feeding for premature babies seems to me to be the next field of
battle.
Some arrive at their destination faster than others.  I wonder why?
(facetious remark)

Some nurses who work in NICU for long periods are happiest without adult
interference (also sociologically based).  They, like some theatre staff
find prefer people to be incommunicado.

bevw (Melbourne Australia)