From reading the posts of the real need for monitoring the newborn closely,
it seems to me the ideal utopia would be a nurse in the room with the baby and
mother at all times during the first hour.  Don't think the nursery is a
solution, since it means a handful of nurses monitoring many more babies at once.
I have watched in windows as a single nurse is responsible forr 10 plus babies
with her back to the isolettes caring for a newborn....The tragedy of a
baby's death is heartbreaking.  As a mother, if my baby had died in the nursery
without me----well, there are no words for loss regardless, its just a baby dying
in mother's arms, on her breast....seems more gentle than alone in an
isolette among strangers.  Thinking of all the conditions a baby could be born with
unknown to hcps and maybe not even able to pick up on until its too late....As
someone else said,

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