In a message dated 4/4/2007 12:00:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Sometimes in interdisciplinary discussions I have gotten the impression  that
it is more important to be able to lay blame somewhere, than to solve  the
problem at hand.  The NICU might criticize intrapartum care for a  baby's
condition at birth, and the birth attendants would argue for  antenatal
causes, and the lactation brigade would like to emphasize  separation of
mother and baby as a cause of the resulting breastfeeding  problems, and when
they go home, the well child care system is peeved  because the hospital
didn't do a good enough job while we are exasperated  at their failure to
follow up.  Even if all of us are right, the  mother and baby aren't any
better off until we help fix  it.



Dear Friends:
    Again, thank you, Rachel. In my job working with a City  Health 
department, I encounter this pointing of fingers everywhere I go. WIC  staff blame the 
hospitals. Hospital staff blame the clients and WIC.
    It is my challenge to confront this and remind  people that it is their 
job to do the best with the person in front of them; if  we all do that, then 
the situations will lighten and breastfeeding will have  more of a chance.
    warmly,

 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Lactation Consultant,  Philadephia Department of Public Health
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty, Union  Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com



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