Dear Friends:
    It is easier than I would have ever believed to  bring a wrong baby from 
the nursery to a mother. I did it, for the first time  ever in over 30 years 
of clinical practice.
    I am privileged to work as a hospital LC. It is  hard work, as many have 
posted about here on LACTNET. There is such a lack of  respect for 
breastfeeding, and mothers and babies in hospitals. 
    In the morning, the LC is to go to the nursery to  get report on babies. 
Whenever I go, there are always squalling babies. I find  this upsetting, 
because the more I work as a LC, the more I understand what  babies are saying. I 
hear all these babies screaming for their mothers and  screaming in pain, 
anger and distress. The last time I worked, there were  at least 10 babies 
yelling. I asked if there were any breastfeeding babies that  I could take back to 
their mothers. A nurse told me to take the twins; each of  whom was in a 
separate isolette. She said I could put both twins in the isolette  so I found each 
isolette and then was asked a question, which I answered. The  level of noise 
in the nursery was very high and I swiftly put one baby in the  isolette of the 
other and left. 
    And that is how I brought one twin back  with the wrong baby. 
Fortunately, a nurse picked up the mistake and  followed me swiftly to get the baby and 
the mother was not the one to discover  the error. So the system does work.
    Not a pleasant experience.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
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