In our hospitals, the midwives don't stay the night after the delivery is complete, holding the baby and watching the parents sleep. There are staff nurses, but they wouldn't be holding the baby; they would be doing other tasks. So, that wouldn't be an option anywhere I've worked or surveyed.
It could be by pointing out the obvious flaws of the hospital bed, making it unsafe, that patients would automatically take in the information that all beds are not safe, and that there are standards to meet. If it were *really* going to be given to patients, of course, it would not look anything like a vent.
I think the vents to our professional community may provide a bit of comic relief to some, who may find a small feeling of solidarity in knowing that poor hospital administration frustrates her peers, as well.
Arly Helm, MS, IBCLC
There may of course be other reasons why better beds are required, but, if the issue is one of how exhausted fathers can safely deal with babies, then I would have thought that encouraging parents to ask midwives to take the babies would be a much better solution than encouraging exhausted fathers to bedshare.
Notices implying that bedsharing at home will automatically be safe are never a good idea, even for purposes of anti-bean-counter vents.
Best wishes,
Dr Sarah Vaughan
MBChB MRCGP
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