Hello again Lactneters

On the thread of vitamin K - my hospital does about 5500 deliveries/year,
and all the healthy or term babies and most of the premies receive oral
vitamin K by syringe or cup with their first feeding or within 4-6 hours of
birth. For our breast babies this is usually done with the second feeding as
the first feeding is done in the LDR suite, where we do not stock vitamin K.
We do not have any recorded incidence of newborns hemorrhaging since we made
this change about 9 years ago.

Off topic - in my intro note I goofed - my twins are actually due May 97,
not May 98, and I forgot to mention that I'm one of the new crop of IBCLC -
July 96 - one of two in my department (staff of 100 RNs) although there are
about 25 IBCLC in our hospital.

back again to lurking.
Joan MacNeil ([log in to unmask])
'Best fed babies are Breastfed babies'