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In a message dated 10/27/2005 6:35:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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We are held under such scrutiny by our superiors to the deeds and words that
may put them in financial risk if the unthinkable were to happen, lest
they(the hospital) be
sued.
Dear Friends:
What a crazy world it is.
Have parents ever sued a hospital if their child gets diabetes which can
be triggered by that "just one bottle" of human milk substitute?
Have parents ever sued a hospital because their iatrogenically (induced)
premature infant ended up in the intensive care nursery? Or readmitted for
hyperbilirubinemia because the mother wasn't taught that her premature infant
needed a different breastfeeding approach than a term infant?
The diseases (including SIDS) that are associated with artifical feeding
are legion. Are hospitals ever sued for promoting artificial feeding? For
giving out free samples? For doing a myriad of things that are not evidence
based, separation of mother and infant being but one?
Yet mothers aren't supposed to be taught about safe bedsharing? As the
evidence shows that about 75% of all babies (both breast and artificially fed)
spend some time in their parents beds (according to research quoted by Linda
Smith), then we certainly need to be teaching parents about safe bedsharing,
just as we teach them about carseats.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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