Originally posted by Emperordmb
Here's one that actually pisses me offmetro.co.uk/2018/04/13/refugees-set-nhs-payout-midwives-didnt-tell-feed-baby-7466157/
Apparently some refugee couple is suing the NHS for not telling them they need to feed their newborn baby, and they didn't feed him for like 15 hours and now he's retarded or something.
Like holy shit, who the **** needs someone to tell them you have to actually feed a newborn baby, seems like some common ****ing sense, and then after this couple mentally retards their own child with this decision they turn around and get a payout from a public institution... just what the ****
I dunno DMB. I read the article. It was pretty vague on how the lack of feeding occured and the only thing I can see is that there seems to have been "difficulties in feeding". Correct me if I'm wrong, tho.
I take it you don't have kids? During antenatal class you are constantly told that a child needs to be fed thru breastfeeding exclusively as changing to bottlefeeding (even as a supplement) will make breastfeeding difficult as the infant would always choose the ease of a bottle vs the breast (even tho breastmilk is much much better especially in the development of the immune system). They basically drill it into your head and I'm thinking parental/midwife advice most couples like this would get from their family or ppl they know or what they were taught before giving birth (or even if they weren't, basic common knowledge you get growing up) would also drill this knowledge in your head.
Thing is, not all women can provide the proper amount of breastmilk to feed their infant, some come almost empty and the infant could suffer from malnutrition in extreme cases. Even then, doctors would still tell you to keep trying breastfeeding exclusively. My wife was a case of this, she was very athletic and had a crazy metabolism so she didn't have and couldn't put on (even when she tried) that much body fat during pregnancy. I remember my baby being almost ashen due to dehydration at a certain point when we kept forcing breastfeeding on her exclusively. Broke my heart. Fortunately, my wife's dad was a doctor and her mom a nurse. They kept a close watch and eventually determined that our baby at that point needed to get supplemented or there would be risks to her health so we immediately switched to supplementation.
I can just imagine a far less lucky couple who doesn't know how far you can go with "breastfeeding only" and would have the same problems as us to make the mistake of forcing it on their child and ending with a big mistake.
Maybe their fault that they didn't learn the language to communicate their concerns well enough. But I cannot help but sympathize with their plight had their situation been anything similar to ours. IMO, whatever payout they get, it's not worth what their child is suffering.