From an article entitled,  "Russians treat child delivery like production
line in factory," by Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times


DATELINE: MOSCOW


...Russia's maternity wards are scruffy,
ill-equipped, harried. They follow rules from Soviet days. Husbands cannot
help their wives through contractions or cuddle their newborns. Women in
labor cannot see family or friends, or even the obstetricians who handled
their pregnancies. The Health Ministry regulations are so detailed that they
control nursing posture as well: Mothers must lie on their sides to  breast-
feed  their babies....

[Copyright  1996,  The Commercial Appeal  (Memphis) February  25, 1996]

Is this true?  How different from our hospitals, where mothers rarely learn
to lie on their sides to breastfeed, and have to figure it out for
themselves at home.  It sounds as though stodginess is a problem
everywhere...

Arly Helm                                       [log in to unmask]
(MS, Nutrition & Food Sciences, CLE, IBCLC; LC for IHC)