Hi Fellow Lactnetters!
Evidently my freenet had been having problems, so I've been off
and on Lactnet the past few days.
I have a question from a colleague in our northern Ohio Lactation
networking group.  She works in a large metro hospital that also
is a regional center for sick newborns. She wonders if any hospi-
tals have a policy re: giving pumped breast milk to hospitalized
babies when mom has a history of drug use?  If the mother
delivers at this hospital, she is urine screened on admission and
if she is positive, they won't use her EBM.  What do you do after
the mom is discharged?  If she wants to use EBM, can she be
screened again?  What about someone who has a history of abuse,
but didn't deliver at your hospital?  Is she screened?  The
hospital lawyer has gotten involved (sighhhh) and has said the
hospital will be liable, so no use of EBM if the mom has a
history.
What do any of you do who work in situations like this?  She
would like some other input to take to administration.
TIA
Pat Bucknell, IBCLC
Avon Lake, Ohio
near Cleveland where the Indians start post-season play for the
first time in 41 years!