Sentences with phrase «with lactation failure»
Health insurance companies need to reimburse doctors for the time they spend attending to breast - feeding issues, to cover galactogogues, and to cover donor breast milk for women with lactation failure.
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They're not there when: * your baby is diagnosed failure to thrive * you're threatened with formula feeding or the child will be removed from your care * the severe jaundice * the stinky teas and horsepills * your baby starts crying when you unbutton your shirt to feed them * your child eventually refuses the breast * you nurse, then formula feed, then pump, then feed what you pumped, and then start all over again without a break * the lactation consultants who offer helpful hints like «you must be doing it wrong» or «stop being so lazy!»
Despite attending La Leche League meetings while pregnant and reading books about breastfeeding I didn't know that lactation consultants did weighed feeds or that if my child was diagnosed with failure to thrive it was time to see one.
«Dealing with low milk supply, it's whatever keeps you sane — that's the most important thing to do,» says Retter, 28, who has been breast - feeding her daughter for two years, supplementing with formula and documenting her experience at her blog, Diary of a Lactation Failure.
Called «primary lactation failure,» this condition occurs when a mother's body does not make an adequate amount of milk for her baby, even when everything else is in order (including but not limited to: latching and positioning, breastfeeding frequency and exclusivity, mother and baby being kept together, baby's oral anatomy is fine with no tongue - tie or cleft palate).
This, combined with the book's recommendation for less than optimal numbers of feedings, could have been the cause of many of the cases we have seen of «Babywise» babies with poor weight gain and a diagnosis of failure to thrive,» says Barger, who has served as president of ILCA and as a member of the examining board for lactation consultants» professional certification.
Doctors practicing today — especially those treating pregnant women and new mothers — need to know that lactation failure really does happen, and to be familiar with the potential causes of it, so that they can intervene early.