Just had a call from a Mom who is having trouble nursing ( or rather is not
nursing)because the nurse at the hospital ( not an IBCLC) told her the baby
was having trouble putting his tongue down.  The baby had bottles of formula
for low blood sugar on day one and two. The Mom said she was told that she
couldn't use the nipples that she brought from home ( Av**t) because those
nipples were against hospital policy to use-that she had to use the hospital
nipples.  Which are the regular kind that milk just pours out of. What kind of
policy is that? I hope this Mom is confused and the hospital isn't really
endorsing and marketing this one kind of nipple. Anyway, the mom is wanting to
rent a pump so she can pump and put in bottles for the baby.  I discussed
nipple confusion, overcoming that, longterm pumping,  the effects of
childbirth meds on BFing ( mom had a spinal for a C sec), etc but I don't
think she got the picture.  She wants the pump tomorrow when she goes home.
I am too tired to deal with this tonight. This is 6 nipple confused babies
here that I have counseled in 3 weeks.
Barbara Whitehead, IBCLC
Eastern NC ( always one step forward and two steps back)