What are your views on this?
My friend has a 4 week old baby who she now exclusively bottle feeds but..........well, here's the story and quite frankly I would complain to her MW team about lack of info etc.
When her babba was born she really wanted to BF but was told she was 'not producing enough milk' so was told to mix the BFs with formula feeds. Well she was happy to do this as she is prone to PND due to a history of depression and the frequency of the BFing was getting her down a bit. HOWEVER, what her MW team did not warn her about was that mix feeding too much would cause her BM supply to dwindle. She went on holiday for a couple of weeks and, because she was busy and had to leave babba with other people for a time and found it difficult to express, basically just bottle fed him through the holiday. Of course her milk then started to dry out and now she just has to bottle feed as she does not have nearly enough milk for her babba.
I am just dissappointed that (a) her MW team did not give her adiquate advice about mix feeding and (b) they did not offer her propper support when she told them that BF was getting her down and just told her to up the bottle/formula feeds if that was the case!
I don't wanna make her feel bad about bottle feeding but I am FURIOUS about the lack of interest/time her mw team seems to be putting in esp as, when she was pregnant I seemed to be telling her more stuff than them and my LO is only 9 months so I'm not exactly an expert!
When her babba was born she really wanted to BF but was told she was 'not producing enough milk' so was told to mix the BFs with formula feeds. Well she was happy to do this as she is prone to PND due to a history of depression and the frequency of the BFing was getting her down a bit. HOWEVER, what her MW team did not warn her about was that mix feeding too much would cause her BM supply to dwindle. She went on holiday for a couple of weeks and, because she was busy and had to leave babba with other people for a time and found it difficult to express, basically just bottle fed him through the holiday. Of course her milk then started to dry out and now she just has to bottle feed as she does not have nearly enough milk for her babba.
I am just dissappointed that (a) her MW team did not give her adiquate advice about mix feeding and (b) they did not offer her propper support when she told them that BF was getting her down and just told her to up the bottle/formula feeds if that was the case!
I don't wanna make her feel bad about bottle feeding but I am FURIOUS about the lack of interest/time her mw team seems to be putting in esp as, when she was pregnant I seemed to be telling her more stuff than them and my LO is only 9 months so I'm not exactly an expert!
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Your friends story is just a list of bad advice, how can health professionals tell someone that they need to give formula to a new born because they don't have enough milk? No one has enough milk untill their milk comes in :roll:
I agree with you, it makes me very sad, like you I was lucky enough to have loads of support, but I think this is rare.
xx