>Heather asks,
>
>
>What is  the evidence for bathing babies in hospital at all?
>
>I am excluding  obvious needs - baby covered in mec, perhaps.
>
>Can't the mothers bath  the babies at home?
>
>Is there really an infection risk if the babies are  left unbathed?>>
>
>
>A general rule is that the nurses are not allowed to  touch the baby
>without gloves until the baby is bathed because of the potential 
>transfer of HIV
>from the bit of blood the baby might have on it.  So no,  not an infection
>risk to the baby, but to the staff.  Theoretically.   At least that is what
>we are told.


That's a really terrible reason :(

So the baby's needs become subservient to the institution's preferences.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK


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