Thanks everyone for your comments to the list and privately.  I am the full
time Lactation Consultant at my hospital and it was one of the part time
consultants who was asked by the patient's nurse about the breastfeeding
issue.  When she went to copy Lawrence's info to leave for the Dr. and
infection control nurse our Director just happened to walk by the copier.
The LC told her about the Mom and the Dr/infec. RN misinformation and she was
verbally attacked!  And glared at like she was doing something horribly
wrong!  It certainly made us all feel like we were nothing but positioning
and latch on queens.  How dare we even think we might have knowledge that
someone else didn't.  I need my job so I just plod along, doing the best I
can.  I have stayed out of this.  Just supporting the LC so she can later go
back and talk to our Director when this has blown over just a little.  This
same Director put out an email to the staff, a few weeks ago, to check with
us WHEN EVER there is a question as to whether or not a Mom can or can't
breastfeed.  So go figure, we never know if we will be supported from one day
to the next.  A Few weeks ago we had a Mom with chronic Hep b who was told
she couldn't breastfeed by nurses.(We were NEVER even consulted)  It wasn't
until a different Ped came in and Mom was going home and he asked me if she
could nurse!  I was able to save that breastfeeding relationship (after 2
days of nothing) and the parents were so appreciative!  We are a very busy
unit so we are not always aware of everything that is going on.  We have a 12
bed LDR unit, and 3 Post Partum units, one with 12 beds, one with 17 beds,
and one with 14 beds.  And we don't just snoop in charts ever.  Who has the
time for that??!!

Thanks again for your support and great comments and all of the knowledge I
keep learning from all over the world!

Pam Hendrix, RN, IBCLC, ICCE
South Florida Hospital Based

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