Over feeding a newborn....vent

[3girls2luv]

Why oh why do they insist on doing this? A baby has a blood sugar of 45 so they give 30ml of formula to get the sugar over 45. A baby is going to be EBF so lets check the sugar and its 43 ok now lets tell the mom to supplement after every bf until her milk comes in. A baby that is being supplemented because of low blood sugars MUST take 30mls of formula before discharge and mom must pump at every feeding to make sure she has enough BM. UGHHHHH this is the crap I have to deal with day in and day out. Here is the scary part; a ff baby nearly crashed on us because his sugar was 25 1hr after its first feeding. The only reason it was notice was because mom felt that the baby was jittery. The nurses never even worried since the baby was ff 30ml in his first 2hrs of life. I will never get it through their head. Even the neos tell moms that babies can't go home unless they are taking 30ml and if they are EBF they need to pump to make sure they can pump out 30ml of EBM or they have to supplement. :: bangs head on floor :::

[HammBugga]

Wow, that is crazy. I went home exactly 24 hours after delivery of my second son. If they had told me I had to pump 30mls before I left I would have told them to shove it up their asses. My milk doesn't come in until day 3.

[alejorge]

I am sorry (((((hugs)))))) that does sound pretty dumb.

[KerryS]

Wow, that's crazy! That would seriously drive me insane. It makes me feel like our hospital is really progressive when it comes to policies about breastfeeding and BG. We don't even really do anything for a BG over 40 anyway as long as the baby is asymptomatic.

[3girls2luv]

Our policy says it must be over 45 if not then "feed the baby" recheck in 30min if still below 45 call the Dr. Call me stupid but it says "feed the baby" it does not say how or how much. If I am around and this is an EBF baby I will manually express colostrum and syringe feed if the baby won't latch on right away and the sugar will come up to the 60s. If the baby has been transfered to the Mother Baby nurses they let me do "my thing" but nursery is the unit that does all the over feeding. I have talked to the managers until I am blue in the face but I get no where. Our EBF rates our pretty good but there are those cases that just make me want to slap some one with a bottle of formula some days. They are so paranoid with low blood sugars. I can see a baby below 30 being a reason to panic but they panic if its below 45 and its not even our policy.