Dear Friends:
    On page 7 of the little book from WHO called Protecting, Supporting and
Promoting Breastfeeding, the statement is made that under normal
circumstances, the healthy, term infant needs no food or drink for the first
2-4 days of life, while lactation is being established.
    It would be best to keep baby in the restaurant, leave baby skin-to-skin
with mom, leave them alone in a loving, supportive environment and wait.
    Hospital practice is a crazy pendulum. Remember the days of 24 hours of
no food or drink at all for newborns? And now it is "start mom pumping if
baby hasn't latched on by 6 hours."
    I am referring to healthy term infants only. Some colostrum
hand-expressed onto a spoon and given to baby will keep the worried ones
content as that will keep baby's blood sugar up and show mom we trust her
body.
    Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner; childbirth educator
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA)
supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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