The midwife saw the baby at 24h and baby had already lost 2oz.  Parents said
they called her more than once to say the baby wasn't stooling enough and
was hungry at the breast, and the midwife did tell them to take the baby to
a ped.   The parents were reluctant to go to a ped for fear of having to
vaccinate the baby (many offices around here are now refusing service to
anyone not vaccinated), so they listened to "everyone else," who said they
should relax and everything will be fine.

I still don't know who "everyone else" would be -- I'm assuming well-meaning
friends and family who just presume that because a baby is at the breast,
milk is being transferred in sufficient quantities and everything
automatically works.

I wonder if there is any information in that midwife's notes about the mom's
hirsutism I noted, as well as the lack of breast change.  Do midwives take
notes about breast growth throughout pregnancy?

Debbie Gillespie, IBCLC

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