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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gave birth this summer at GW and had somewhat of an opposite experience- wanted to exclusively bf but was pressured to use formula Which they brought me. I was not expecting that at all and it was really stressful and disruptive. The people who downplay FTM being pressured about their feeding choices clearly have not experienced a pediatrician or nurse playing on your anxieties around the health of your baby to push you into doing something not best for you and your family. It sucks.[/quote]

My guess is that if they were urging formula at GW it was because your baby had lost a lot of weight or jaundice. That’s not “playing on anxieties around the health of your baby” - it’s providing medical care to your child. 
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Actually no. They told me to give formula because I could not pump 40 ml of colostrum every 2 hours.[/quote]

ok so that’s good they told you to give formula. glad to hear they are being more careful about making sure babies don’t get dehydrated than when I delivered there. [/quote]

I'm being very serious here: you sound stupid.   A newborn's stomach can hold around 7 ml.  If the nurses or LC's at GW truly told PP to give formula for not producing 5.5 times that capacity every 2 hours, it was bad advice and had nothing to do with dehydration.[/quote]

that’s not true about newborn stomachs. https://fedisbest.org/2017/06/newborn-stomach-size-myth-not-5-7-ml/

I don’t know exactly what happened in PP’s case but sounds like the medical professionals thought her baby needed more milk [/quote]

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