At the hospital where I used to work, we were having a hard time getting rid of
the pacifiers. They were in the admitting kit which had been used forever and a
day.  We encouraged parents not to use them, but there they were.  We also asked
the nurses to avoid them, to little avail.  One day I was in a room when the
nurse wheeled baby in from a visit with the doctor, and the little fellow was
sucking away on a pacifier.  Dad grabbed the pacifier and tossed it all the way
across the room, and said,"He doesn't need this" .  Pointing at  the the mother
he said, "HE ALREADY HAS TWO OF THEM OVER THERE!"  I burst out laughing, and the
nurse thought the father had flipped.
(By the way, they finally got them out of the kit when we did a QA study to show
that taking them out would save the hospital thousands of dollars a year)  We
had to go at it from the money angle for the final success!  We got a little
award for our cleverness.

I have been off Lactnet a few days.  Is there any new word on Hepatitis C?  I
got a call from a sister LC today who had a mom who delivered today, and they
told her she could not breastfeed. Got it from Ruth Lawrence's book.  Anything
new I could share with her?

Thanks for any input.

Ann Calandro, RNC,IBCLC
Waxhaw, N.C.    and wishing I were in Chicago or on my way to Arizona!