In a message dated 12/10/03 10:47:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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For some reason that hasn't been shared with us, the OB physicians decided
that these handouts are "outrageous" and "make their patients feel like
inadequate parents".  They demanded that they be pulled from the unit, which they
were.  Our unit director supports us and feels that the physicians need to be
educated. She has arranged a meeting for next week Tuesday with the chief of OB.
Dear Friends:
    Barb is enduring a situation much as we all are with the Ad Council
Campaign!
    What about accepting that new parents feel inadequate? Of course they do,
and feeling inadequate can motivate a parent to learn. Hence the lovely
handouts to help them.
    What about asking the physicians for evidence to support their practice?
    What about involving other practitioners, such as Ethics Committee
members, or pediatricians who recognize the risks of pacifier use and of not
breastfeeding? What about refusing to budge and letting the physicians get away with
their power play? What about finding every single breastfeeding advocate in
the entire institution, from CEO on down and getting them involved? What about
creating a handout committee that involves everybody, so it isn't one advocate
nurse-manager up against the Chief of OB?
    I know it is easy for me to talk, because I am not there. However, why do
we have to kowtow to the physicians when they use vehemence-based practice or
authoritarian-based practice?
    Unless they are using the DHHS surrender of truth in the Ad Campaign as
model of how to maintain power??
    warmly, and good luck!
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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