There's even a big difference between doctors at the same hospital.
My lovely doctor is very open and supportive to breast-feeding, as are the maternity nurses at Baptist, despite their (lack of) rooming in policy.
But I had a check-up with another "back-up" doctor last week, who was not so breast-feeding. She told me that Chinese babies were more likely to have jaundice, that formula helped that, and that exclusive breast-feeding was a "gweilo" thing.
So.... I probably won't listen to her unless I have some real breastfeeding issues.
The irony is that none of my Chinese family have had jaundice, but my Western husband did when he was a baby!
My lovely doctor is very open and supportive to breast-feeding, as are the maternity nurses at Baptist, despite their (lack of) rooming in policy.
But I had a check-up with another "back-up" doctor last week, who was not so breast-feeding. She told me that Chinese babies were more likely to have jaundice, that formula helped that, and that exclusive breast-feeding was a "gweilo" thing.
So.... I probably won't listen to her unless I have some real breastfeeding issues.
The irony is that none of my Chinese family have had jaundice, but my Western husband did when he was a baby!