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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
>
> 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