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Marie said:
<<I have NO idea where this "came from"...but, we (in my hospital) do it
EVERY day! We tell moms during our postpartum breastfeeding teaching, "It is
important to try to get babies to nurse on each breast for 15-20 minutes
to stimulate milk production...every 2 1/2-3 hours." This is the same
information we teach moms who are pumping when their babies are in our Special
Care Nursery. Yikes...what *should* we be teaching!>>
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How do you MAKE a baby breastfeed? How do you MAKE a baby breastfeed X
number of minutes? Babies are the one that are breastfeeding, and just
because he is AT the breast, doesn't mean he is BREASTFEEDING. He might FEED
for 3 minutes and HANG OUT for 12 minutes. Furthermore, it is very very
difficult to wake a baby and MAKE him breastfeed. I'm a good nursery nurse,
and I can probably bottle feed a newborn rock. But I'm also a good lactation
consultant, and I can't MAKE a baby breastfeed who isn't ready to nurse.
What is the answer? Keeping mom and baby together, skin to skin as much
as possible and allow the baby full access to the breast. But you can't
MAKE him breastfeed every X number of hours for X number of minutes.
Why to we persist on doing this?
And, while I'm on the topic, why do we tell mothers to "wake your baby and
feed him every two hours." We don't do that to tiny babies in the NICU,
for pity's sake. Why are we trying to do that to full term or late preterm
infants? When are they supposed to sleep???
And we wonder why mothers give up and go to pumping and bottle feeding.
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Wheaton, IL
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