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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
TexLex, did you deliver at Women's? If so I will watch them like a hawk. I wasn't expecting that problem, since most non-BFers bitch about the pro-BF attitude of the nurses.
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I hesitate to venture into this area, but I note that when our first child was born, my wife got similar static while she was in the hospital before the milk came in and the feeding started to work.
The nurses really wanted to be able to give the baby some formula overnight, but my wife stuck to her guns, despite feeding visits every 90 minutes or so with crying infant and a "You're starving your baby" comment. The kid did not perish, and is still going strong.
Funny part is my wife switched to formula full-time after about 6 months, both due to production issues and because it was a pain in the butt.
In fairness to the nurses, the crew caring for the child post-partum (at least in our hospital) were not the OB-GYN nurses who cared for my wife. They were a separate crew whose job was to care for the newborn babies -- so that was their prioirity.
