A couple of friends of mine have just had a baby, she's a week old today. She's breastfeeding her quite happily, latched fine, no problems whatsoever, milk came in on day 3 OK, everything tikkety boo.
So what does her HV tell her to do? "Try not to feed her so often - leave more gaps in between feeding."
So now the baby's crying far more often, because the mother is doing what the HV tells her. The problem is, I can't tell her the HV's talking crap, because I'm not a professional, am I, the HV is, and has got a piece of paper to say she knows better than me, and I'm not close enough to the mother (it's the father who's my friend, originally) to interfere!
I'm so annoyed! When is someone in the NHS going to get a proper BF training programme established? This mother was doing so well, and now she's been undermined by shite advice from someone she ought to be able to trust!
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Grrr. Yet another piece of rubbish advice from an HV.
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Caligula · 07/03/2005 13:15
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