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From: "Ami Burnham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:59 AM
Subject: [LACTNET] newborn bath

**Hi Ami,

all our local hospitals have gotten used to clients refusing the bath
and are not making an issue out of it, the baby merely gets a sign placed on
his/her bassinet stating "this baby has not been bathed, please wear gloves"
(personally i want any hospital staff who is handling my clients baby's to
be wearing gloves anyway, so i see this as a benefit).

**Just curious (I don't work in a hospital): why would a baby that has not 
been bathed, need to be handled with gloves only...?
Like someone else said... newborns are not dirty, are they...? A little bit 
of blood would probably have been wiped off after birth, wouldn't it...?
I don't think that in Dutch maternity wards, nurses are all wearing gloves 
when they handle babies. Should they be...?

Regards,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

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