A couple of weeks ago I became a grandmother for the first time!!What a buzz it is I hadn't quite realised how emotional I would feel and how I would fall in love with my little granddaughter at first sight!
However today I am quite cross! Not with anyone except the Early Childhood Nurse who is so ignorant of breastfeeding that she told Proud Mum, that she was overfeeding her baby because she had gone from 2.5 kilos at birth to 3.18 kilos after 2 and a half weeks. She was also told that the baby was snacking on the breast and a dummy was the solution! It makes my blood boil just to write this. How can someone who has the wellbeing of newborn babies in their control spout such rubbish? Our little Thumbling is not overfed - she is a hungry newborn who is thriving on her mother's milk. Her mother is a natural breastfeeder and she is loving it. Even with the total support she is getting from Big Daddy this sort of sh** is undermining. Could someone please tell me how a nurse gets into this position and how she can manage to stay so ignorant of breastfeeding??
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