>No flames from me!
>
>This is such a sad story.  I don't want to minimize that, at all!  But it's
>not really about breastfeeding *or* cosleeping, and it's frustrating that it
>is reported that way.
>
>It's really about the sometimes tragic outcomes of the lack of support
>surrounding women who just gave birth.
>
>Lynn Carter SFO IBCLC
>Missouri, USA


Totally.

Leaving a mother in a single bed, alone with her baby, after birth, 
with no one watching her is *poor* *care* - nothing to do with 
co-sleeping or breastfeeding at all, and everything to do with 
systems in a maternity ward that do not allow for safe supervision or 
safe co-sleeping in a safe bed.

About once a year we have a case like this that hits the newspapers - 
it's often reported as a co-sleeping or breastfeeding fatality. In 
every case I can remember, the mother has been drugged or exhausted 
(sometimes both)  and always left alone.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
-- 
http://www.heatherwelford.co.uk

http://heatherwelford.posterous.com

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