>and i was told by a nurse here that "the mom can have the baby for kangaroo
>care as soon as he has spent half an hour under the warmer, then she can
hold
>him for a while, but then he has to go back under the warmer."



I remember hearing this at a hospital I worked at a few years ago. I was
"just a CNA nursing a baby", what did I know. But the breastfeeding
counselor told me once, while putting a baby under the warmer, how well she
liked the baby warmer or whatever name they had for that particular one. I
replied with "But doesn't skin to skin contact with mom do well also?" She
said ,"Yes, but she liked the warmer cause she could see EXACTLY what the
baby's temperature was." There you have it. It is ingrained in our society.
Seeing is believing. Nothing left on instinct with people.

Patti c.
(mother of 3, nursing mother of 19-mo twins and aspiring LC in WI)

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