Originally Posted by
randomlegend
I know of midwives who don't think we should be allowed to do bloods to check for dehydration in breast fed babies because it might lead to us giving them formula milk (if they are severely dehydrated and need it in order to not die) which may interfere with breastfeeding and breastfeeding is sacrosanct.
In fact it's even more stupid than that, they think if we are doing bloods for something else (usually jaundice), the machine will also give us the numbers which tell us if the baby is dehydrated that these results should be removed/obscured for breast fed babies.
These are the sorts of things I'm talking about.