I've had 3 grandchildren in the past 3 years or so, and I've got to tell you that those Lactation Nurses in the hospitals -- and it was 3 different hospitals in different cities -- are some kind of emphatically nuts. One baby did not want to nurse, nothing wrong with the baby, he just didn't want the breast, and that lactation witch made my DIL feel like a failure as a woman and a mother before she had been a mother for 2 days.
If a mother wants to breast feed and the baby agrees ... fine and dandy. But to push this like they do these days, acting like the world will come to an end if you don't breastfeed the infant, is damaging and wrong. The baby formulas these days are very good and, while not offering the immunities that mothers' milk might, they will grow a youngin' just fine.
Sorry to hear that,, I would hope that lactation nurses would be able to handle delicate situations without making things worse..
The kid will eat when he is good and hungry and if he doesn’t, the formulas can do the job just fine. Ya can always breast pump and sneak some to him on the side in a bottle..
See my post 27. Wonder if we were at the same hospital.