Melinda Hoskins wrote about LDRP in USA:
"For that reason he usually asks to have baby brought to nursery area
because 1.) nurse somehow is always present that way, 2.) central
location seems to be better stocked with supplies and equipment, 3) exam
goes more efficiently.  He then goes back to talk with the mother and
father."

Why not bring the parents with him then if the supply and the nurses are
really the reason????  This would disturb the nurses and the head nurse,
and everybody else involved in the care of the baby, and they could then
re-think about their philosophy and their policies and procedures...

As a perinatal nurse, I would take a better guess: the doc doesn't want
to examine the baby in front of the parents because it takes too much
time since the parents ask questions.... At least, this has been my
experience for many years!

I am sorry I won't see the discussion on this since I will be no mail
for more than a week, being at the official Baby Friendly Initiative in
Vancouver...but I could not resist on this one!

Louise Dumas, R.N., M.S.N., PhD
Professor-researcher in Nursing Sciences
University of Quebec in Hull
(Western Quebec where it is in the minus degrees already!)

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