Terrific job done, Morgan.
I wish you and those around you and the family lots of success.
It's a crying shame and a serious sign of how far we have drifted away from
where we started...

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

----- Original Message -----
From: "Morgan Gallagher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:07 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] Removing Breastfeeding Babies


> Many of you in here, contributed to Baby E being given back to her mother,
> when her mother was criticised by Social Services for breastfeeding her
> own baby in access meetings.
>
> A while ago, I told you all that the baby, had been returned to the
> mother, and that the court evidence had shown that there was no evidence
> of neglect, at all.
>
> However, as there were complaints in progress, the family had kept
> everything low key, and we'd not openly blogged about the outcomes.
>
> This changed this weekend, when another baby was taken from his mother's
> arms, in Ireland.  The family of baby E, Baby Elisha, wanted me to blog,
> in order to see if it would help get this baby back to the mother before
> it was too late.
> As part of this, I've openly blogged the advocacy complaint that we
> prepared earlier this year, on behalf of Baby Elisha.  Many of you in
> here, are named on this document, as you supplied your expert witness on
> the baby's behalf.
>
> You may wish to read the blog, and the advocacy complaint:
>
> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-bens-name-love-from-elisha.html
>
> It may be of use in seeing how you can present the evidence of the harm of
> removing breastfeeding babies, without due cause.
>
> It is not pleasant reading.  I'm just speechless at the courage of Rachael
> and Juliet, Elisha's Mum and Grandmother.
>
> Morgan Gallagher
>
> www.nursingmatters.org.uk

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