baby not keen on breast and jiterry..what to do

[raynienatasha]

guys need help around here.... in my hospital where i practice when a baby is not keen in sucking on breast and the baby looks jittery we will supplement the baby with a dr order( its a standing oder actually if the glucometer level is below 3 mmol/L) although the mothers insist on total breastfeeding... what is your practice in your hospital... what irks me most is even though we explain to mother that your baby's glucometer is low and we need to supplement the baby for one time they still insist on total breastfeeding..And they keep on saying that they say its not harmful to total breastfeed your baby( because they read in in internet).....so what are you guys practicing in your hospital... Have you come across mothers who breastfeed baby on a limited time in night shift so that they can sleep although baby is still crying for milk..And when we say you have to breastfeed longer because your baby still looks hungry, they look unhappy...(like they are expecting us just to make the baby stop crying) .what do you say to these mothers ?? Your experience please?

[CanadianGirl79]

While I think this is wonderful, I do hope that the moms of the preemies are asked before their children are given donor milk. I imagine that some women would not agree to that (as some won`t agree to transfusions, etc).

We don`t have milk banks where I am, but I wish we did!