At 02:49 PM 7/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/19/01 10:32:43 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< Are there other hospitals that prohibit=20
>co-sleeping? >>


I gave birth in May, 1999 at Bon Secours St. Francis Xavier Hospital in
Charleston, SC.  Despite this being my third child, I was told repeatedly
that I could not keep my son in the bed with me while I slept.  As I am a
light sleeper and felt very secure in the bed, I continually disregarded
what they told me.  Of course, I am usually a pill and grew up in that
hospital as my mother was a nurse there for 25 years.  While I was able to
ignore them, your average new mother doesn't think they have a right to do
as they please with their own child.

Paula Hart
Charleston, SC

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