Rachel

Here we bath babies from day one.  In fact, I first heard about *not*
immersing neonates on Lactnet!  Unfortunately we still use surgical spirits
to clean the cord despite research....

Mothers bath  ad lib, too.  So (at least in our private LC practice) we do
use co-bathing with good results.

Jean Ridler  RN  RM  IBCLC
South Africa   [log in to unmask]

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