>Here is what happened to me today. A baby with 10% weight loss but
>BF well with more voids and stools than one could count on day 2.
>Peds recommened EBM or formula supplements after every other feed
>and recommended she start to pump.
Why?
Day 2?
On what grounds did the paed think that breastfeeding needed to be
interfered with in any way at all at that point?
Why is that 'all good'?
There must have been some reason given....if the 10 per cent weight
loss is regarded as too much, then simply encouraging more skin to
skin and therefore more frequent bf would have been sufficient, would
it not? There's no urgency anyway, not with a baby feeding well and
voiding normally - another weight could have been done in a couple of
days.
Am I missing something?
If a mother wants to remove milk mechanically as early as day 2 (for
any reason), a pump much less effective than manual expression,
anyway.
> All good until....
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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