Doesn't requiring a Rx give it status? Like an antibiotic, it is life saving liquid?  I think a printed sheet on how much to give and how to gently wean from the supplement and why there is a need to wean from formula would be more appropriate.  One of the writers amongst us could come up with a share-able form..... It isn't needed just post discharge, it is needed in peds office for  whenever they say give a supplement. 
 
Heard a terrible tale the other day, very PT  baby given only breast milk, exclusively during hospital stay.  Home one day, weighed by ped, who noted no weight gain since hosp (24 hours), different scale!  Told mom to add 1 tsp of formula powder to bottles of mom's own milk, which she did, baby now has NEC :-(  Pat in SNJ


On 04/07/14, L. Robinson 
wrote:

At the recent California Breastfeeding Coalition one of the speakers suggested categorizing formula as "medicine" because , in a few instances, it is life saving just like medicine. Doesn't Baby Friendly require written orders for formula in hospital unless it's by request of the mother? Seems to me that having the same set of orders post discharge, modeled after WHO guidelines, would present an opportunity for us LC's to call the physicians to responsibility and consistency. Categorizing formula as medicine removes it from the perception that it is equal to breast milk and simply a lifestyle choice.

Lisa Robinson. RNC, IBCLC

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