Katherine,



That poor mom!  No support from the hospital staff! Thank God she has you
and Morgan!  Sounds like she needs to get out of there as fast as possible!
I have known many many women who would do "whatever" the hospital staff told
them, so that they could meet the goals the baby needed to meet to be
discharged home.  (pumping, giving formula, giving bottles, not co-sleeping
in hospital)  She can totally say, "I understand your trepidations to my
parenting style and see the rationale to your suggestions and am going to
adhere to those".  That gets "charted".  The staff pats themselves on the
back as having "saved" another life.  Baby gets discharged.  Mom then free
to mother her child as she intends to.  Period!



If we ALL did this ALL the time, it would be a great disservice to the
change that needs to occur in the institutions, but when you deliver in a
"not so baby friendly institution", you can suffer a prolonged stay and more
unnecessary interventions.  In this particular scenario, I would suggest
compliance so that a quick and timely release would occur!  If they bring up
the fact that her 2.5 yr old still nurses, she can say "oh, I am weaning
him!".  That's not lying, he is weaning.  They don't have to know it could
take a couple more years!



Warmly,



Linda Hill RN, IBCLC

- who learned to pick her battles


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