Originally Posted by hobo2000
My sons (4) were all born prior to this no feed idea. None of them could handle my milk, so it was whole milk, out of the fridge, slightly warmed and cereal at 9 days old. I have 4 healthy men now and we did the same for the grandbabies when they came along. After the third night of crying, I showed my DIL's how to mix a little cereal in the milk in their bottle and then progressed to feeding from a spoon runny cereal. My newest great GD is getting the same thing.
DITTO!!! Tried nursing my son -- he wasn't getting milk. Finally, after 24 hrs of nursing and NOTHING....I gave him a bottle. Within 2 days he was getting rice cereal in the milk. That kid was always starved from the day he was born. He's now a healthy 34 yr old.....amazing how mothers were able to take care of their children just fine until doctor's started telling us what to do. My doctor threw up his hands and told me to find someone else...he couldn't condone me feeding the kid a bottle..LOL -- I did -- we were all happier.
OP -- yes, time to find another doctor!