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One of my pet peeves......the bath.

I will try to be serious.......I was scolded by E.A. for being too
silly.
In our hospital babies are being allowed to remain with the mother
longer and longer in the L&D which means that they are taken to the
nursery within the first hour and a half after birth as opposed to the
first ten minutes.
They are put under grillers until their turn comes to be washed.  We can
have as many as 13 new babies at a time, so the length of time varies.

Then comes the "bath," shower actually.  The babies are washed under the
tap in the sink, sort of like a lettuce... first the back and then the
front, and then the head is held under the tap.  I have seen more than
one baby aspirate water. They scream and I am sure are water traumatized
forever.  I am unable to watch this procedure to this day and the few
times I have been asked to help with the baths, I refuse to bathe them
that way.

Rationalization?  They are bathed so soon because that is the way it has
always been done.  No one thinks about HIV here , so that is not the
issue.

I wanted to bring a little plastic tub into the teaching room to let
moms learn how to bathe the babies, but it is not allowed because of the
issue of cleaning the tub between each bath.
The babies are bathed every morning right before my breastfeeding class
which means that most babies sleep through that feed  because we all
know that a bath like a car ride is like general anesthesia for a baby.
For babies who need to be assessed by me before release, we learn alot
about rousing techniques!!  I have mentioned to the staff that it might
be a good idea to wash the babies at night........dream on!!  It has
always been done in the morning, and will probably continue.
So there you have it......how Israeli babies spend their first few hours
of life.
Esther Grunis,IBCLC ( trying to be serious and hating it!!)
Tel Aviv, Israel
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