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Originally Posted by little_tippler
I have to say that I know for a fact of several cases of women who had trouble when they first gave birth, with breastfeeding and who were mistreated by nurses at the maternity because of it. They wanted to breastfeed, and had planned to, but initially had trouble with the baby latching on, painful breasts, and PPD.
Instead of being supportive, the nurses made them even more anxious by insisting that it was all in their head, that it was their fault that the baby would not latch on and that deep down they just didn't want to breast feed and so were doing it on purpose.
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this was certainly our experience, my wife did try and try and try and the nurses did little to support her effort, watching from the other side of the nursery and saying things like, "keep trying it will work", after a couple of days it did not, she could not produce milk, we found the bottle and raised a beautiful, strong, intelligent girl
babes number two and three were the same, admittedly there was not a long a "trying period" for number three, but effort made nonethless
had we not have been so overwhealmed and tired at the time, we probably should have challenged the maternity nurse's approach