Winnie wrote:
>  Simply demanding that baby stay with mom doesn't address the real issues.  A number of studies have been reported about the number of times a new mom is interrupted during the day while in the hospital.  It is good that we seem to have stopped considering birth as a medical condition, but in the process we seem to have also given the message that a new mom doesn't need the same kind of rest as, for example, a surgical patient. <

I agree with Winnie that mothers need rest and privacy in order to
establish bonding and breastfeeding with their babies. Reducing the
number of interruptions by hospital staff is a good first step.

I would also prefer that other hospitalised patients were able to get
more uninterrupted rest. My husband had  a heart attack last week and
was in hospital for a few days. I am glad to say that he received
excellent care and is now back home. His only complaint was about not
being able to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time. While he
realised that the tests and meds and general checking were important,
he compared his stay to being tortured through sleep deprivation.
There has to be a better way!


Norma Ritter, IBCLC, RLC
Breastfeeding Matters in the Capital Region
www.NormaRitter.com
http://normaritter.blogspot.com/
http://www.communitycradle.org/resourcesandpublications.html

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