Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
Exactly! 
You (general you as a provider) either not accept the child at all until you KNOW they are capable of eating or you do NOT accept the child into care.
Whatever option you choose, is up to each provider but simply struggling all day trying to get a baby to eat unsuccessfully is neglectful on the providers part.
Bottom line is; have a plan in place that meets BABY'S needs verses just keeping a starving, unhappy baby all day without contacting the parent.
This is good advice to follow, wish I had learned this a long time ago, instead of allowing other people to persuade me itno trying over and over again to get a breast fed baby to drink from a bottle. People who treated me like I should know how to get a baby to drink from a bottle....because it's my job
