Kathleen,

That is why I encourage my breastfeeding Moms to room-in, but a large
percentage do not.  They send the baby back to the Nursery so they can get
some sleep.  They tell their nurse to either keep the baby in the nursery
and feed formula, or have the baby brought out to nurse and that is at least
every four hours instead of feeding on demand during the night.  So the
mother is out in her room trying for two hours to wake the baby.  Of course,
she becomes frustrated.
When the Nursery was rebuilt back in 1993,we were going to have mother-baby
nursing with only babies in the nursery were new or sick babies.  We can't
enforce the so called policy because the patients won't come to our hospital
if they new they had to keep their babies with them 24 hours.  95 % of the
babies are brought back to the Nursery for their doctor's exams.
All I am doing is hitting my head against the wall. After birth, babies are
taken to the Nursery usually following an hour of uninterrupted
breastfeeding.  Then they are on a warming unit until their temperature is
37 degrees C, then a bath.  these babies continue on the warming unit until
their temperature again reaches 37 degrees.  If the baby's blood sugar is
below 40 they baby is given 1/2 formula and 1/2 10% Dextrose by nipple.  The
peds don't trust cup feeding so it is not an option nor is going out to
breastfeed.  And of course there is not such thing as "nipple confusion".
They peds say give the baby a bottle if you want it will not effect the
breastfeeding.  And we teach family practice residents!!!
And this was about co-sleeping.  Sorry for rambling.
--- Helen Vermilya
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