Regarding your post of Monday, July 16, 2007 10:21 PM

.and then there's the civilian hospital I delivered at 6 months ago and the
stories I'm hearing of BF babies being given formula in the nursery while
they're waiting for the pediatricians to make their rounds. They're
violating their own hospital policy for doing that. I would like to find out
if they gave my son formula, because I'd be inclined to sue them. I
supplemented here and there with my daughter because I didn't know then what
I know now and I'm proud of the fact my son has never had a drop.... I think
I'd be devastated.

 

Anne - I'm so far behind in reading LACTNET and just getting to your request
for opinions.  I encourage that a woman legitimately sue for something that
was done to her baby without her permission.  IMO, it is the only way to
change the horrible interventions occurring in our healthcare system.  You
can speak to your mentor about how to get hold of your medical records, as
well as your baby's.  Read if your baby was fed in the nursery and who did
it.  Then sue if you want to or at least have that RN pulled onto the carpet
for going against hospital policy.  S/he is responsible for the actions.  No
RN has the right to make a decision regarding your baby's feedings without
your consent; and the (signed?) consent has to be with complete prior
information as to the adverse consequences.  What if your baby had a severe
allergic reaction to one feeding of ABM?  You may have been breastfeeding
because of a family history of allergies to cow's milk and/or dairy
products.  How dare anyone expose your baby to cow's milk protein and risk a
serious reaction, including death.  You can certainly scare the RN, nurse
manager, legal department, president of the hospital, etc, with a lawyer's
letter as to the consequences of such actions.  It may save many a baby's
health/life in that hospital in the future.

This is a topic that truly gets my ire up because of what was done to me
during labor and birth, and my babies, 30-40 years ago.  If I knew then what
I know now, I would have sued; and it would not have been a frivolous suit.

Warm regards,

Lee

 

Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC

Lactation Specialist

Lactation Center of Westchester/Putnam

Westchester County in NYS, USA

914-245-2206

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Vice-President

Westchester/Putnam/Rockland (WPR) Lactation Consortium

 

"Children are Born to Breastfeed"


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