I can't believe there was no further follow-up. When parents choose our "combination" plan (which includes 24 hour vag and 48 hour C/S) moms, they automatically get a home visit 2 days later by the visiting nurse-assuming baby goes home with mom. If mom goes home without baby, she doesn't get the visit without a specific MD order for a problem, in which case she probably wouldn't be going unless she insists on it due to no insurance. The visit is part of the package price for a delivery so there is the option of early d/c with visit or "standard" stay with follow-up phone call from our "Nurse-on-Line". In the situation you describe, most of our peds would NOT have discharged the baby in 24 hours. Some actually leave it to the LC-we call the ped after we have worked with the mom and they generally take our recommendation about whether we feel the baby is "OK to go". In addition, when a baby is going home feeding poorly, we work out a feeding plan with the mom which includes an outpatient visit with the LC in a couple days. There is one peds group that routinely sees breastfeeding babes for at least a weight check before the "standard" 2 weeks. It sounds like several places where someone "missed the boat" with this baby. Does anyone else smell a lawsuit in the wings with this case? Winnie *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html