I had a meeting today with the clinical director of the out of hours service where I took ds when he was ill and was given the Ribena advice.
Here's the last thread about it, which also links to the original thread
It lasted around 40 mins and she appeared to take on board all the things I was saying to her. She had contacted a paed at the Sick Kids hospital who (thankfully) told her that there are only a tiny number of occasions where stopping breastfeeding (even temporarily) would be recommended.
She then talked at great lengths about how the out of hours service is one section, which is unrelated to NHS24, which is unrelated to the hospital etc etc. I said that the patient doesn't see it this way and unfortunately I will be wary of any breastfeeding advice given to me by any health professional, preferring to ask a bunch of hairy handed truckers. HA HA no, I didn't say that, I said I would rather get my advice from a breastfeeding organisation such as LLL or the NCT etc.
Then we talked at length about the general lack of breastfeeding knowledge amongst health professionals. She asked me if I would be willing to participate in patient/partnership forum meetings which the trust hold. I am assuming from this that she thought my points were valid and that somebody within the health service should be hearing them.
And at the end, she said she had enjoyed our discussion.
And I got a free cup of tea.