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Argh Helen. Where are you located? Sounds like your hospital is about 25
years behind the times. Must be frustrating. K

At 05:29 PM 7/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Kathleen,
>
>That is why I encourage my breastfeeding Moms to room-in, but a large
>percentage do not.  They send the baby back to the Nursery so they can get
>some sleep.  They tell their nurse to either keep the baby in the nursery
>and feed formula, or have the baby brought out to nurse and that is at least
>every four hours instead of feeding on demand during the night.  So the
>mother is out in her room trying for two hours to wake the baby.  Of course,
>she becomes frustrated.
>When the Nursery was rebuilt back in 1993,we were going to have mother-baby
>nursing with only babies in the nursery were new or sick babies.  We can't
>enforce the so called policy because the patients won't come to our hospital
>if they new they had to keep their babies with them 24 hours.  95 % of the
>babies are brought back to the Nursery for their doctor's exams.
>All I am doing is hitting my head against the wall. After birth, babies are
>taken to the Nursery usually following an hour of uninterrupted
>breastfeeding.  Then they are on a warming unit until their temperature is
>37 degrees C, then a bath.  these babies continue on the warming unit until
>their temperature again reaches 37 degrees.  If the baby's blood sugar is
>below 40 they baby is given 1/2 formula and 1/2 10% Dextrose by nipple.  The
>peds don't trust cup feeding so it is not an option nor is going out to
>breastfeed.  And of course there is not such thing as "nipple confusion".
>They peds say give the baby a bottle if you want it will not effect the
>breastfeeding.  And we teach family practice residents!!!
>And this was about co-sleeping.  Sorry for rambling.
>--- Helen Vermilya
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Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet, Indep. Consultant
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