Dear Friends:
 
I get so angry and sad at scenes such as this recent one, that I witnessed  
as part of my work as lactation consultant in a hospital.
 
The still-wet newborn is wailing and calling for his mother while he bakes  
under the warming lights in the nursery. The nurse is standing at the door of  
the nursery, using her serious voice, telling the dad that the baby's blood  
sugar is low and that she will be giving formula, using a slow flow nipple that 
 is most like mother's nipple. The mother is in her room down the hall, 
wanting  her baby, with milk in her breasts.
 
This makes me crazy. I am helpless. I can't barge in to the dialogue  between 
nurse and dad, because it will set up a confrontation, because the  doctor 
said the baby had to be in the warmer for X length of time (usually until  the 
temperature and blood sugar come up). 
 
sigh.

 
Nikki Lee RN,  BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy  practitioner
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