Thanks, Lori for responding.  At our hospital though, visitors would have
to wait in the hall which would not be allowed.  We don't have a general
waiting room on our floor and the one on the main level is really small.

Customer service is the key at our hospital and that is why we have liberal
visiting hours.  I understand the parents wanting to show-off their infant,
but visitors stay all day and mom gets little rest, if any.

I would like to see hospitals limit visiting hours, but I don't see this
happening.

We get admissions throughout the night and the families are following right
behind them while we are trying to get them settled in.  Mom is exhausted
after laboring and "putting on a show", the room is already filled with
nicknacks and huge bouquets of flowers and balloons that there is no room
for.  In the morning, it starts again with visitors trailing in and out
until 8 or 9 p.m.  No wonder mom doesn't want to breastfeed or gives in to
the Nsy nurse who says she will give the baby a bottle through the night!

By the time she is being discharged, she has no idea how to properly
breastfeed her infant.  And then we wonder why moms don't want to
breastfeed because bottlefeeding is much more convenient.

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