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Originally Posted by Rikki  Really, it's more for the baby's health than it is your wife's. Right after the cord is cut, the baby loses out on the glucose passed to him from mom. Thus, baby can get hypo VERY quickly if mom was constantly high while pregnant. When a baby is hypo they don't eat and some will lose their suck reflex. Because of this, they then end up on an NG tube being fed formula and glucose water to bring their bg up. If your wife is planning to breastfeed, this can be very disheartening because the baby will get full on formula and not want to nurse, which will delay mom's milk from coming in and deny baby the really good colostrum (if she can pump or squeeze out colostrum, make sure baby gets that instead of formula if bg is low...it's better for baby).
Congrats on the new baby! I'm jealous. I want another baby so badly! |
Amen to that one about the breast feeding they used to immeditely take the babies to the NICU, when I had my first two and give them glucose and feed them formula, so it was too hard for me to breast feed, now my last two they changed how they did things and i got too.....Thank God for changes.....my first two were born 9 and 7 years ago.....
Cheryl
