Patricia: Boy-o-boy, I share your distress. A nurse once told me
that when she took her baby into the mother-and-child clinic, she
heard the clinic nurse tell a mother to relieve episiotomy pain
by stopping bfing! I get stressed out when I hear of
neonatologists who tell moms of slightly jaundiced newborns to
stop bfing for 2-3 days, give water and formula (by bottle of
course), and imply that she'll be able to return to bfing with
no problem. One woman called me on the phone, semi-hysterical,
just wanted to know how to wean (I stopped asking myself why she
didn't come to me at the BEGINNING of her problem). She was bfing
a one month old, had felt a lump in one breast, went to her FP,
who sent her to a gyne, who sent her to a surgeon (!). The
surgeon inserted a hypodermic into the lump and drew out -
anybody want to answer this easy one? - breast milk! The woman
raced home, found my phone number and wanted to wean. Sigh. Oh,
I've got LOTS of dilly stories, but I have to watch my BP. Judy
Knopf