This is exactly why I believe the 10% (7%, 11.232344%) approach is so
harmful. This physician, if the story is accurate, any way you slice it, is
guilty of intimidation and assault.

But here, on day four, based on a weight from a different scale, without
watching the baby breastfeed, or knowing what to look for (assumption based
on his approach), based on some figure, for which there is no evidence,
based on a birthweight that maybe even the mother got wrong or was written
down, took it upon himself to decide that breastfeeding was inadequate.
Maybe it was, and maybe it wasn't. But the proper approach, after
*observing* the breastfeeding, would either have been to reassure the mother
and point out to her how to know the baby was actually getting milk (if the
breastfeeding was going well), or fix the breastfeeding so that the baby got
milk.

Boulder, sounds like a hard place to live.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC