My... Nikki, how sad indeed... :-(
Can't they understand that for temperture and blood suger to come up, mom's
body is the best place to be for this little one...?
How is it, that we as a society have drifted away from our roots so far...?
Warmly,
Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands (still battling with the guideline that
promotes distance between mom and child, for picking him up when he's crying
will teach him that his parents are there for him all the time, which in
some people's minds is a bad thing to learn for a baby... :-s :-( ...)
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From: "Nikki Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 4:01 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] rant
>
>
> 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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