In a message dated 8/19/98 9:51:47 PM Central Daylight Time,  Maurenne Griese
writes:

<< They features a story
about infant security and the opener was about a mom in Lowell Mass who was
nursing someone else's baby by mistake.>>

I copied from the website www.cbs.com/navbar/news.html:

<<The so-called tags are attached to the baby and the mother.
"If the two tags got too far apart or if the infant is moved without the
parent's tag moving with it, then that would be an alarm condition and you
could take action from a security standpoint," said Remy.>>

Maurenne, I'm with you - this is a silly high tech solution.  But I can't help
but like the idea of alarms going off when babies are too far from their moms
:-)   If hospitals won't change their policies in order to be baby friendly,
maybe they'll change in order to be less open to litigation - "rooming in"
security systems could become part of the standard of care.  *And* it is a
chance to use fancy, shmancy electronic toys - perhaps they could replace some
of the other "necessary" OB equipment (now who is being naive?).

Elaine Ziska, LLLL
Jackson, MS