Hi all,
      I worked at a small town hospital in northern Minnesota in 1979 for
my first nursing job.
The standing orders for the nursery was all babies to be npo X 24 hrs!  I
was young and timid and just did what they told me!   Of course that kind
of management is obsolete, but the point is that the babies were fine
because healthy, term infants have fat and fluid stores in their bodies.
I share this with parents sometimes.
    As far as nurses worrying about the babes feeding q 3 hours.......We
teach them to look at the 24 hour picture.  Also to promote skin-to-skin
contact with mom/baby, which is an INTERVENTION nurses can do so they
feel like they are doing their job!!!
    I have worked evenings pp for many years, and so many of the babies
who had slept most of the day cluster-fed all evening and into the night.

     Susan in Minnesota
     rn ibclc
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