Hi, I am finally back and can see that I am WAY behind. I cannot find the
information referred to called "No Free Lunch". Could somebody please post
it again, or email me privately.
Thanks to Cindy for the information on the Nestle Boycott - I have dutifully
sent my email. I also suggested to Peter Blackburn that if they really
wanted to pass out "FREE" formula, they might pass it out to 40 orphanages
in Baku, Azerbaijan, where my daughter is trying to make a difference.
And thanks to whoever gave us the information on Ralph Nader's entry into
the maternity markets. That is going to a corporate meeting tomorrow in a
health care corporation that manages 19 hospitals. Hopefully it will have
an impact.
I took 6 of the lactation staff (4 of them brand new grads of lactation
educator courses) to Pocatello, Idaho, to hear Jack Newman and Kathy
Dettweyler speak (all day!) It was a great conference, and was SOOOOO much
better coming from them than from me. Thanks so much to Jack and Kathy for
the time and effort that goes into their excellent presentations.
Newest (#14) grandchild is here, my youngest daughter's first baby. Since I
am a NICU nurse, nobody in the birthing room said a thing when I took one
quick listen to the baby's heart and lungs, got the baby pinked up and put
her directly to breast. She latched on like a little lunch-mouth, and has
been doing so for the past 9 days. Forty five minutes later, she was still
contentedly nursing away, and all the nurses were getting "antsy" to get her
weighed, measured, etc. I told them I would weigh her "in a minute" and
that I didn't think another ten minutes would make much difference in the
weight.
We gave her the shot of Vik K (which I firmly believe in) while she was at
mom's breast, and she didn't even pause in her suckling.
It is so wonderful to see how beautifully breastfeeding functions when it
gets off to a decent start! Our only problem came when the baby arrived
back from a short stay in the nursery with a pacifier stuck in her mouth.
My daughter marched down to the nursery with it, announced loudly to
everybody there that she had specifically requested NO PACIFIERS OR BOTTLES,
and threw it in the garbage can. The poor little CNA who did it was
mortified, and I'll bet she never does THAT again.
Deanne Francis, R.N. IBCLC
NICU
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