Good question, your hospital is not alone in it's practice.  
It must be hard to balance the needs of many individual mother/baby pairs when the window is 2 days. 

This article was  written quite awhile ago to digest the "new" research on infant led feeding and disseminate it to LLL Leaders.  It does a good job and I've used it to explain to mothers why I am suggesting something different than they'd been told.

http://www.llli.org/llleaderweb/LV/LVSepOct95p69a.html

Looking through some of my resources I see that the recommendation of allowing the baby to finish one breast before offering the second is repeated in the breastfeeding management sections.

Breastfeeding and Human. Lactation 3rd ed. 2005. Jan Riordan  p. 300
Breastfeeding A Guide For The Medical Profession. 2005. 6th ed. p. 275

 Jodie Lucci in NH



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Yikes...what *should* we be teaching!
Thanks,
Marie Ivey, BSN, RN, LCCE. CLC

          

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