Hospital should feed breastfeeding mums?

[NurseRosie]

AIBU to think that if your baby is in hospital and Mum is staying as fully breastfeeding, the ward should feed Mum? The NHS is not spending money feeding the baby as mummy us making the milk. Baby feeding sometimes 2 hourly and very clingy as unwell. Ward have only given tea and biscuits. Restaurant expensive and open funny times, for example baby upset over lunch yesterday so didn't get down until 2 and they'd stopped serving hopt food for the day. Do you think they should offer mum a meal?

I was pumpig and trying to build up my supply. It was very frustrating

When DS1 was a small baby and EBF he was in hospital several times and I was always fed and given a breast pump to keep up supply when he was too ill to feed. I appreciate the NHS is strapped for cash and would've been happy to pay for my meals, but DS was thought to be seriously ill and often couldn't be put down and there simply wasn't anyone else to look after him a lot of the time, so making the half hour round trip to the cafe three times a day wasn't an option. So I see how it could be a drain on valuable NHS resources, but to those saying 'it's not a hotel', I can only assume you've never experienced the horror that is a small baby seriously ill and in hospital.

One of my comments was "it's not a hotel" and yes, I have been in and out of hospital wth my youngest son on a regular basis since he was only a few weeks old (life threatening condition). It's stressful and very traumatic, but I still stand by my comment that you shouldn't expect to be fed by the Hospital, you are not the patient.

Did you post twice in case you didn't get the result you were looking for on the other thread?

There are many things that the NHS should be committed to doing across the entire board, but feeding you (or any non patient) isn't one of them; Make yourself a sandwich before you leave the house and a flask of soup to bring with you.

No, i think the parent is responsible enough to feed themselves. If a patient is nil by mouth, they don't get the value of the meal back or given to visitors.

LadyPenelope In that case I retract that statement and apologise in highly un-MN style. Sorry you had to go through that too. Six years on and the memory of the fear is still pretty raw and it's possible I'm a touch oversensitive on this kind of subject.