I am getting ready to go to a home visit in a neighboring town. Mom was in  
labor 8 hrs at home, given Pitocin when she arrived at the hospital because her 
 labor had gone on "so long". Then had an epidural, baby was born and was  
breathing fast, given ABM ( since when is that a remedy for fast breathing???),  
then sugar water ( 2 bottles of each within the next 8 hrs), then had an IV  
because the hospital didn't want the baby to get dehydrated, given a pacifier 
so  baby wouldn't wake up at night, mom was told to nurse with the nipple held 
 tightly between the first two fingers, baby is jaundiced ( 14 to 12, now 
back to  14), put on a bili blanket, has lost 7 oz ( 7 lbs 14 oz to 7 lbs 7 oz at 
day 6),  mom is engorged, saw OB yesterday who prescribed antibiotics for 
engorgement,  saw Ped yesterday who said it is normal for BF babies to loss 15% 
of the  birthweight, and don't worry. She went into WIC who called me because 
there  is no bfing personnel in this county, or even at the state level. Thank 
goodness  the WIC director had heard me speak at a conference and kept my 
card. Even  though it is 90 miles away, the grandparents decided to pool resources 
and pay  my fee to come there.
How much ignorance can come out of one hospital?? I think it is going to be  
a long visit.
 
Barbara Whitehead, BS, IBCLC, RLC
eastern NC

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