Ouch! I hope you weren't upset with me trying it out. Unfortunately, we have lots of babies who spend hours in the nursery every morning waiting for nursing and peds assessments. It always disturbs me to hear the babies crying, so I was very excited when I watched your video. I wanted to see if I could help some of these babies calm down, and also see if I could teach the techniques to the moms. I can't control how long the babies spend in the nursery (waiting for assessments), but I can soothe the ones who are there. Since gaining some initial success with the babies that morning, I have begun to teach my moms with fussy babies how to calm them down. I couldn't teach something that I hadn't tried first. I also practiced one-on-one with the moms at our support group, and I have been recommending the book/video to several of them. I also wonder if this would have worked with drug addicted babies that we've seen in the past. Those babies, as well as some others, can't go out with their moms. One mom just didn't want her baby yesterday, so the 5 S's worked great. Disturbing, yes. Glad I have a way to help now, yes. Wishing I had more arms, yes. One good side is that the staff saw me calming a very upset baby down this morning, and the nurse manager is very interested in learning the technique. Thank you, Joyce Coleman -----Original Message----- From: Jay Gordon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:24 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Misuse of the Five S's In a message dated 7/30/03 11:47:11 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: > This morning, while the babies were having "choir practice" in the nursery, > I ran around one-by-one and implemented the 5 S's (or how ever many it > took). > This is a disturbing post. The babies should have been out with their mothers breastfeeding. Truly disturbing. Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html