>The sad story of babies not being permitted to breastfeed in a hospital
>(!!!) reminds me of a cartoon I saw.  A sign at the entrance to the
>maternity dept read:  "MATERNITY.  NO CHILDREN ALLOWED."  I wonder if
>the staff would have objected if the mother would have bottle fed.

In my young and innocent days, my father had an endarterectomy when my
second child was 6 weeks old.  I wanted to visit my father at the hospital,
2 1/2 hours away, but wasn't about to leave my son.  And after all,
neurology isn't exactly the most infectious unit.

As I waltzed into the hospital, babe in arms, I honestly *assumed* that
their concern was for my baby's welfare.  As nurses and staff confronted me
with "you can't bring a baby in here," I responded breezily with, "Oh, it's
okay.  He'll be fine.  He's breastfed and he'll be with me.  He's not going
to catch anything," and kept on walking.  No one had a quick enough answer
to this, so I had a nice visit with my dad.  It was only years later that I
realized how far my innocence had carried me.
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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