Here's some shots I took of Samantha during their 2-night stay at the hospital. Karen didn't really get any rest because the baby was staying in the room and was in a strict on-schedule breastfeeding (every 2-3 hours) regimen.
This is the time when we realized how much we underestimated breastfeeding. We are both determined to have the baby breastfed (as set forth by AAP guidelines: www.aap.org) so we tried very hard to get that baby to latch on properly.
While the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center is one of the best hospitals in the world, our nurse seemed to view her job --- well, simply --- just a job. As a result, you can imagine our shock when she handled our baby like butchered meat. Even though she admitted that Kristen was one of the cutest babies she's seen, she said that this was "baby boot camp". Geez.
Evidently, Karen didn't properly learn to breastfeed while in the hospital and she had to endure sore nipples while the baby chewed on them. To avoid giving a bottle and risk nipple confusion, we resorted to SNS (www.medela.com).
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If you want the best for her, you have to breastfeed her for more than a year. I read somewhere that human breastmilk not only contains most of the building blocks for the baby's growth, but it also has all the ingredients that may fortify her immune system.
That's why babies fed on breastmilk do not normally get sick. It's because of an acid or something in the breastmilk.
Am I right, doc?
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