Relative had baby yesterday early am. Mum & baby got home today. Dad reported that they had tried bfing but that "baby wasn't having any of it" and because she was so small (5lb) they "had to" switch to bottles.
I don't know anything else about it but it just seems awfully quick to have given up on bfing within 24 hrs of baby being born. Surely an infant healthy enough to have been discharged from hospital today can't be so small that trying to bf for a little longer was contraindicated?
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Do you think this might have been too soon to give up attempting bf?
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MsHighwater · 31/08/2008 23:26
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