Another bit of advice comes  thusly:
 
<<instructed by the  Pediatrician to nurse 10 minutes a side and then take 
the 
baby off and give  him formula (even though she is getting overfull) because 
he 
will use too  many calories to continue to breastfeed.>>
 
 
The thing that takes more calories is  if you are trying to make the baby 
wake up and then trying to make the baby  latch on, and struggling and struggling 
with the latch.  Yes, that's more  calories than just sticking the bottle in 
the baby's mouth without even waking  them up (and yes, I'm a good nursery 
nurse, I can MAKE the baby take the  bottle).  BUT -- if the baby is latched and 
feeding, according to the  research that has been done on premie babies by 
Paula Meier -- long ago, surely  the neos know this is a classic?? -- it would 
take less calories to comfortably  breastfeed than bottle feed.
 
I think the idea has somehow settled  into the national lexicon that it is 
more "work" to breastfeed which is why  babies prefer to bottle feed.  It's only 
more "work" if there is no milk  there....it isn't more "work" if mom has a 
good milk supply.  And of  course, when we "work" harder, we use more calories.
 
That, of course, depends on  perspective.  I "work" harder giving a lecture 
than I ever do scrubbing a  floor or vacuuming or washing windows or even 
jogging  (like that ever  happens!!).  I dare say I burn more calories doing 
physical things than I  ever do lecturing -- which is too bad.



 
Jan  Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
_Lactation Education  Consultants_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/) 
_My blog_ (http://www.motherofbridebyjan.blogspot.com/) 
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