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> From: litthome <[log in to unmask]>
> To: lactnet@library
> Subject: milk to wrong baby
> Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 5:18 PM
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> We try to prevent this from happening by labelling all milk with stickers
> stamped with baby's stamper. These labels are made in nursery but kept
in
> mother's room with her pump. Mom is instructed to label milk with these
> BEFORE milk goes to nursery refrigerator and adds date/time. The nurse
who
> uses milk is to read label and compare with baby's wristband just as is
> done with medication. If incident occurs (wrong milk given) an incident
> report must be done and yes all should be tested. No other way around
this
> I think except PREVENTION! Has potential of being much more serious than
> most drug incidents, unfortunately. We also have plastic containers in
> refrig. for each baby with a sticker on outside, too. We assumed without
> checking that OSHA would consider this a body fluid therefore biohazard
> which is why we initially started the use of the container. The extra
> separation of each baby's milk might help to prevent these incidents. We
> have not had this occur, but rarely have more than one mom pumping at a
> time. Of course right after we did this we had 3!!! :-)!
>
> Peggy
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